The year 1882 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Births
- March 14 â WacÃ
Âaw SierpiÃ
Âski (died 1969), Polish mathematician.
- March 23 â Emmy Noether (died 1935), German mathematician.
- March 30 â Melanie Klein (died 1960), Viennese-born psychoanalyst.
- April 27 â Harry Allan (died 1957), New Zealand botanist.
- June 17 â Harold Gillies (died 1960), New Zealand-born plastic surgeon.
- July 12 â Traian Lalescu (died 1929), Romanian mathematician.
- July 21 â Herbert E. Ives (died 1953), American optical engineer.
- September 30 â Hans Geiger (died 1945), German inventor of the Geiger counter.
- October 5 â Robert Goddard (died 1945), American rocket scientist.
- October 26 â Marietta Pallis (died 1963), Indian-born Graeco-British ecologist.
- November 18 â Frances Gertrude McGill (died 1959), pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist.
- December 11 â Max Born (died 1970), German physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.
- December 28 â Arthur Eddington (died 1944), English astrophysicist.
- Israel Aharoni (died 1946), Belarusian-born Jewish zoologist.
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