The year 1891 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Environment
Mathematics
Paleontology
Physiology and medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 8 â Walther Bothe (died 1957), German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1954).
- January 26 â Wilder Penfield (died 1976), American-born neurosurgeon.
- April 22 â Harold Jeffreys (died 1989), English mathematician.
- May 15 â Fritz Feigl, (died 1971), Austrian-born Brazilian chemist
- July 5 â John Howard Northrop (suicide 1987), American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
- July 27 â Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist (died 1968)
- August 17 â Aly Tewfik Shousha (died 1964), Egyptian bacteriologist.
- September 14 â Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov (died 1983), Russian mathematician.
- September 24 â W. F. Friedman (died 1969), Bessarabian-born cryptanalyst.
- October 24 â Ernest Melville DuPorte (died 1981), Caribbean-born Canadian insect morphologist.
- November 14 â Frederick Banting (died 1941), Canadian discoverer of insulin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923).
Deaths
- January 6 â Hugh Owen Thomas (born 1834), British orthopaedic surgeon.
- February 10 â Sofia Kovalevskaya (born 1850), Russian mathematician.
- March 9 â Amalie Dietrich (born 1821), German naturalist.
- May 11 â Edmond Becquerel (born 1820), French physicist.
- June 9 â Henry Edwards (born 1827), English-born American entomologist and actor.
- June 23
- Sir Norman Pogson (born 1829), English-born astronomer.
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber (born 1804), German physicist.
- August 30 â Emanoil Bacaloglu (born 1830), Romanian polymath.
- September 18 â William Ferrel (born 1817), American meteorologist.
- October 3 â ÃÂdouard Lucas (born 1842), French mathematician.
- November 18 â Joseph Wolstenholme (born 1829), English mathematician.
- December 21 â William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (born 1808), English landowner and promoter of science.
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