Overview of the events of 1870 in science
The year 1870 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- January 9 – Joseph Strauss (died 1938), American bridge engineer.
- January 13 – Ross Granville Harrison (died 1959), American physiologist.
- February 7 – Alfred Adler (died 1937), Austrian psychotherapist.
- March 17 – Horace Donisthorpe (died 1951), English entomologist.
- May 20 – Arthur Korn (died 1945), German inventor.
- May 27 – Anna Stecksén (died 1904), Swedish scientist, physician and pathologist.
- June 21 – Clara Immerwahr (suicide 1915), German chemist.
- August 25 – Mihran Kassabian (died 1910), American radiologist.
- October 23 – George Newman (died 1948), English public health physician.
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