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The year 1879 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

CHEMISTRY

Per Teodor Cleve discovered the elements Holmium and Thulium

January 2 - Publication of the first issue of the Journal Of The American Chemical Society

PSYCHOLOGY

Wilhelm Wundt creates the first laboratory of experimental psychology at the University Of Leipzig .

AWARDS

BIRTHS

February 22 - J. N. Brønsted (d. 1947 ), physical Chemist .

March 8 - Otto Hahn (d. 1968 ), German Physicist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize In Chemistry .

March 14 - Albert Einstein (d. 1955 ), Scientist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize In Physics .

May 28 - Milutin Milankovic (d. 1958 ), Geophysicist .

DEATHS

April 16 - Peter Kozler (b. 1824 ), Geographer and Cartographer .

November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell (b. 1831 ), Mathematician and Physicist .