See also: 1891 in science, other events of 1892, 1893 in science and the list of years in science.
Chemistry William Ramsay discovers argon Mathematics Georg Cantor shows there are different kinds of infinity and studies transfinite numbers Awards Copley Medal: Rudolf Virchow Wollaston Medal for geology: Ferdinand von Richtofen Births Deaths January 2 - George Biddell Airy, astronomer (* 1801) January 21 - John Couch Adams, mathematician (* 1819) April 2 - Emin Pasha, explorer (* 1840) December 18 - Richard Owen, anatomist and paleontologist (* 1804) August von Hofmann, chemist (* 1818)
