1892 in science

The year 1892 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Chemistry

• William Ramsay discovers argon

Mathematics

• Georg Cantor shows there are different kinds of infinity and studies transfinite numbers

Awards

• Copley Medal: Rudolf Virchow
• Wollaston Medal for geology: Ferdinand von Richtofen

Births

• March 30 - Stefan Banach (d. 1945), great Polish mathematician.
• April 14 - Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (d. 1979), astronomer.
• August 15 - Louis-Victor de Broglie (d. 1987), physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane (d. 1964), British geneticist.
• December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung (d. 1929), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.

Deaths

• January 2 - George Biddell Airy (b. 1801), astronomer.
• January 21 - John Couch Adams (b. 1819), mathematician.
• April 2 - Emin Pasha (b. 1840), explorer.
• December 18 - Richard Owen (b. 1804), anatomist and paleontologist.

• August von Hofmann (b. 1818), chemist