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The year 1894 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Chemistry 2 Medicine 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Chemistry

• Argon discovered by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay.

[edit] Medicine

• Patrick Manson develops the thesis that malaria is spread by mosquitoes

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Edward Frankland
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Karl von Zittel

[edit] Births

• February 11 - Isaac Kolthooff, chemist.
• November 19 - Heinz Hopf (d. 1971), mathematician

[edit] Deaths

• November 26 - Pafnuty Chebyshev (b. 1821), mathematician.
• September 8 - Hermann von Helmholtz (b. 1821), physicist.