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The year 1877 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Medicine 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Medicine

• Patrick Manson studies animal carriers of infectious diseases

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: James Dwight Dana
• Wollaston Medal: Robert Mallet

[edit] Births

• September 2 - Frederick Soddy (d.1956), physical chemist.
• September 11 - James Hopwood Jeans (d. 1946), mathematician and scientist.
• September 13 - Wilhelm Filchner (d. 1957), explorer.
• October 25 - Henry Norris Russell (d. 1957), astronomer.
• Oswald Theodore Avery (d. 1955), bacteriologist.
• Godfrey Harold Hardy (d. 1947), mathematician.

[edit] Deaths

• September 17 - William Fox Talbot (b. 1800), mathematician, physicist and chemist.
• September 23 - Urbain Le Verrier (b. 1811), astronomer.
• September 26 - Hermann Günther Grassmann (b. 1809), mathematician.
• Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (b. 1824), botanist.