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The year 1893 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Awards

• Copley Medal: George Gabriel Stokes
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Nevil Story Maskelyne

Births

• October 23 - Ernst Öpik (d. 1985), Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist.

Deaths

• January 7 - Jožef Stefan (b. 1835), physicist and mathematician.
• December 4 – John Tyndall (b. 1820), physicist.
• December 28 - Richard Spruce (b. 1817), botanist.

Medicine

• October 5 - Johns Hopkins Medical School opens