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The year 1882 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Events
- Nikola Tesla conceives the ideas of the rotating magnetic field principle and the induction motor.
Awards
- Copley Medal: Arthur Cayley
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Franz Ritter von Hauer
Births
- March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski (d. 1969), Polish mathematician.
- September 30 - Johannes Hans Geiger (d. 1945), inventor of the Geiger counter.
- October 5 - Robert Goddard (d. 1945), American rocket scientist.
- December 11 - Max Born (d. 1970), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.
- December 28 - Arthur Eddington (d. 1944), astrophysicist.
Deaths
- January 11 - Theodor Schwann (b. 1810), physiologist.
- April 19 - Charles Darwin (b. 1809), geologist and naturalist.
- September 23 - Friedrich Woehler (b. 1800), chemist.
- November 20 - Henry Draper (b. 1837), doctor, astronomer.