1890 In Science

Medicine

• Discovery by Emil von Behring and Shibasabo Kitasato that an anti-toxin for immunizing people against diphtheria can be prepared by injecting diphtheria toxin into animals

Awards

• Copley Medal: Simon Newcomb
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Crawford Williamson

Births

• December 21 - Hermann Joseph Muller (d. 1967), geneticist.

Deaths

• February 3 - Christoph Heinrich Buys-Ballot (b. 1817), meteorologist.
• December 26 - Heinrich Schliemann (b. 1822), German archaeologist.

References

1. Reference: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). Immunotherapy: past, present and future. Nature Medicine 9, 269-277.

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