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1883 in science

The year 1883 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1882 in science, other events of 1883, 1884 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Geology 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

Geology

• August 26 - Krakatoa begins its final phase of eruptions at 1:06pm local time. These produce a number of tsunamis, 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 Blanford

Births

• Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1970)

Deaths

• June 26 - Edward Sabine, physicist, astronomer and explorer (born 1788)

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