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The year 1892 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

CHEMISTRY

William Ramsay discovers Argon

MATHEMATICS

Georg Cantor shows there are different kinds of infinity and studies transfinite numbers

AWARDS

BIRTHS

March 30 - Stefan Banach (d. 1945 ), great Polish Mathematician .

April 14 - Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (d. 1979 ), Astronomer .

August 15 - Louis-Victor De Broglie (d. 1987 ), Physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize In Physics .

November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane (d. 1964 ), British Geneticist .

December 12 - Herman Potočnik Noordung (d. 1929 ), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.

DEATHS

January 2 - George Biddell Airy (b. 1801 ), Astronomer .

January 21 - John Couch Adams (b. 1819 ), Mathematician .

April 2 - Emin Pasha (b. 1840 ), Explorer .

May 5 - August Wilhelm Von Hofmann (b. 1818 ), Chemist

December 18 - Richard Owen (b. 1804 ), Anatomist and Paleontologist .