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The year 1883 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Geology
- August 26 - Krakatoa begins its final phase of eruptions at 1:06pm local time. These produce a number of tsunami, mainly in the early hours of the next day, which result in about 36,000 deaths on the islands of Sumatra and Java. The final explosion at 10:02am on August 27 destroys the island of Krakatoa itself and is heard up to 3000 miles away
Awards
- Copley Medal: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Thomas Blanford
Births
- May 13 - Georgios Papanikolaou (d. 1962), inventor of the Pap smear.
- June 24 - Victor Francis Hess (d. 1964), American physicist.
- October 8 - Otto Heinrich Warburg (d. 1970), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Deaths
- June 26 - Edward Sabine (b. 1788), physicist, astronomer and explorer.
- December 8 - François Lenormant (b. 1837), assyriologist and numismatist.