1854 in science

The year 1854 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Events

* Filippo Pacini, an Italian anatomist, discovers "Vibrio cholerae" — the bacterium that causes cholera. [cite web |url=http://www.ph.ucla.edu/EPI/snow/firstdiscoveredcholera.html |title=Who first discovered "Vibrio cholera"? |author=Frerichs, Ralph R. |date=2001-08-05 |publisher=UCLA School of Public Health Pacini's 1854 publication was titled "Osservazioni microscopiche e deduzioni patologiche sul cholera asiático" ("Microscopical observations and pathological deductions on cholera").]
* Bernhard Riemann, a German mathematician, submits his habilitation thesis "Ueber die Darstellbarkeit einer Function durch eine trigonometrische Reihe" (About the representability of a function by a trigonometric series), in which he describes the Riemann integral. It is published by Richard Dedekind in 1867. [cite web |url=http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Riemann/Trig/ |title=Riemann's "Habilitationsschrift"]
*Louis Pasteur begins studying fermentation at the request of brewers.

Awards

* Copley Medal: Johannes Peter Müller
* Wollaston Medal for Geology: Richard John Griffith

Births

* March 15 - Emil Adolf von Behring (d. 1917), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
* April 29 - Henri Poincaré (d. 1912), French mathematician
* June 13 - Charles Algernon Parsons (d. 1931), British inventor of the steam turbine.
* July 12 - George Eastman (d. 1932), photography pioneer.

Deaths

* July 6 - Georg Ohm (b. 1787), physicist

References