1890 in science

The year 1890 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Medicine

• Discovery by Emil von Behring and Shibasabo Kitasato that an anti-toxin for immunizing people against diphtheria can be prepared by injecting diphtheria toxin into animals^[1]

Awards

• Copley Medal: Simon Newcomb
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Crawford Williamson

Births

• December 21 - Hermann Joseph Muller (d. 1967), geneticist.

Deaths

• February 3 - Christoph Heinrich Buys-Ballot (b. 1817), meteorologist.
• December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann (b. 1822), German archaeologist.

References

1. ^  Reference: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). Immunotherapy: past, present and future. Nature Medicine 9, 269-277.