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The year 1890 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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^[1]

Awards

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

Births

• December 20 - Jaroslav Heyrovský (d. 1967), chemist
• 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. ^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine 9: 269–277. doi:10.1038/nm0303-269.