The year 1884 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- January 6 – Gregor Mendel (born 1822), Silesian geneticist.
- February 7 – Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (born 1825), German astronomer.
- May 10 – Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (born 1817), Alsatian French chemist.
- May 12 – Robert Angus Smith (born 1817), British atmospheric chemist.
- May 13 – Cyrus McCormick (born 1809), American inventor.
- July 18 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter (born 1829), German geologist.
- July 20 – Sir Caesar Hawkins (born 1798), English surgeon.
- November 3 - Antoine Constant Saucerotte (born 1805), French physician[22]
- November 11 – Alfred Brehm (born 1829), German zoologist.
- November 25 – Hermann Kolbe (born 1818), German chemist.
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At a medical congress in Heidelberg, Germany, September 15. Honegger, H.; Hessler, H. (September 1970). "[Discovery of local anesthesia by Karl Koller. I]". Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde (in German). 157 (3). West Germany: 428–38. ISSN 0023-2165. PMID 4922411.
Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1920). "Russia's Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences. 23: 232.
- 33/256. Bollettino delle privative industriali del Regno d’Italia 2nd Series 15 (1884) pp. 635–655.
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Winter, Lumen; Degner, Glenn (1933). Minute Epics of Flight. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. pp. 49–50.
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