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The year 1882 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Events

• Nikola Tesla conceives the ideas of the rotating magnetic field principle and the induction motor.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Arthur Cayley
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Franz Ritter von Hauer

Births

• March 14 - Waclaw Sierpinski (d. 1969), Polish mathematician.
• September 30 - Johannes Hans Geiger (d. 1945), inventor of the Geiger counter.
• October 5 - Robert Goddard (d. 1945), American rocket scientist.
• December 11 - Max Born (d. 1970), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.
• December 28 - Arthur Eddington (d. 1944), astrophysicist.

Deaths

• January 11 - Theodor Schwann (b. 1810), physiologist.
• April 19 - Charles Darwin (b. 1809), geologist and naturalist.
• September 23 - Friedrich Woehler (b. 1800), chemist.
• November 20 - Henry Draper (b. 1837), doctor, astronomer.