Births
- January 1 - Ernest Jones (died 1958), Welsh psychoanalyst.
- February 22 - J. N. Brønsted (died 1947), Danish physical chemist.
- March 8 - Otto Hahn (died 1968), German physicist and winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- March 14 - Albert Einstein (died 1955), German-born physicist and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- May 28 - Milutin Milanković (died 1958), Serbian geophysicist.
Read more about this topic: 1879 In Science
Famous quotes containing the word births:
“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)