1880 in science

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The year 1880 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Mathematics

• F. Landry finds the largest known Fermat prime, 65537.
• John Venn popularises Venn diagrams.

Medicine

• Moritz Kaposi publishes Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten in Vorlesungen für praktische Ärzte und Studierende ("Pathology and treatment of diseases of the skin, for practitioners and students"), a significant textbook in dermatology.
• English surgeon Sampson Gamgee reports on his use of the medical dressing Gamgee Tissue.
• Scottish surgeon William Macewen reports on his use of orotracheal intubation as an alternative to tracheotomy.

Physics

• February 13 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
• The first demonstration of the direct piezoelectric effect is made by the brothers Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie.
• Johannes Diderik van der Waals formulates the Law of Corresponding States.

Technology

• Dugald Clerk builds the first successful two-stroke engine.

Publications

• February – The journal Science is first published in the United States with financial backing from Thomas Edison.
• Start of publication of Report Of The Scientific Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76.

Awards

• Copley Medal: James Joseph Sylvester
• Wollaston Medal: Auguste Daubrée

Births

• January 18 – Paul Ehrenfest (died 1933), Austrian physicist and mathematician.
• February 17 – Reginald Farrer (died 1920), English botanist.
• June 21 – Arnold Gesell (died 1961), American developmental psychologist.
• June 24 – Oswald Veblen (died 1960), American mathematician.
• August 17 – Paul Kammerer (died 1926), Austrian Lamarckian biologist.
• October 15 – Marie Stopes (died 1958), English paleobotanist and pioneer of birth control.

Deaths

• January 9 – William Budd (born 1811), English physician and epidemiologist.
• May 6 – Friedrich Bayer (born 1825), German manufacturing chemist.
• July 9 – Paul Broca (born 1824), French anthropologist.