The year 1858 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Exploration
Mathematics
Physiology and medicine
Psychiatry
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 2 â Bernard Sachs (died 1944), American neurologist.
- January 9 â Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, née Knight (died 1934), American botanist.
- January 28 â Eugène Dubois (died 1940), Dutch paleoanthropologist.
- February 7 â Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate (died 1931), Dutch anthropologist.
- March 18 â Rudolf Diesel (died 1913), German mechanical engineer.
- March 27 â Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (died 1945), German physician and bacteriologist.
- April 23 â Max Planck (died 1947), German theoretical physicist.
- May 19 â Thomas Allinson (died 1918), English physician and dietetic reformer.
- May 28 â T. H. E. C. Espin (died 1934), English astronomer, scientist and clergyman.
- July 9 â Franz Boas (died 1942), German-born anthropologist.
- August 11 â Christiaan Eijkman (died 1930), Dutch physiologist.
- August 19 â Ellen Willmott (died 1934), English horticulturist.
- August 27 â Giuseppe Peano (died 1932), Italian mathematician.
- October 4 â Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (died 1935), Banat-born physicist.
- November 1 â Ludwig Struve (died 1920), Russian astronomer.
- November 30 â Jagadish Chandra Bose (died 1937), Bengali physicist.
- Laura Forster (died 1917), Australian physician.
Deaths
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