The year 1852 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Ada Lovelace shortly before her death in 1852
March 25 – Charles Loomis Dana (died 1935 ), American neurologist .
April 10 – Arthur Vierendeel (died 1940 ), Belgian civil engineer .
May 1 – Santiago Ramón y Cajal (died 1934 ), Spanish neuroscientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
August 4 – Catharine van Tussenbroek (died 1925 ), Dutch physician .
August 30 – Jacobus van 't Hoff (died 1911 ), Dutch chemist .
September 9 – John Henry Poynting (died 1914 ), English physicist , discoverer of the Poynting–Robertson effect and the Poynting vector .
September 15 – Edward Bouchet (died 1918 ), African American physicist.
September 23 – William Stewart Halsted (died 1922 ), American surgeon .
September 28 – Isis Pogson (died 1945 ), English astronomer and meteorologist .
October 2 – William Ramsay (died 1916 ), Scottish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
October 6 – Bruno Abakanowicz (died 1900 ), Polish mathematician , inventor and electrical engineer.
October 9 – Hermann Emil Fischer (died 1919 ), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
November 12 - Xavier Arnozan (died 1928 ), French physician.[9]
December 13 – Charles E. de M. Sajous (died 1929 ), American endocrinologist .
December 15 – Henri Becquerel (died 1908 ), French physicist.
January 1 – John George Children (born 1777 ), English chemist, mineralogist and entomologist .
January 6 – Louis Braille (born 1809 ), French inventor .
January 13 - Jean-Nicolas Gannal (born 1791 ), French pharmacist , chemist, and inventor.
August 15 – Johan Gadolin (born 1760 ), Finnish chemist .
August 24 – Sarah Guppy (born 1770 ), English inventor.
September 4 – William MacGillivray (born 1796 ), Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
September 8 – Anna Maria Walker (born 1778 ), Scottish botanist.
October 9 – Thomas Frederick Colby (born 1784 ), English cartographer .
November 10 – Gideon Mantell (born 1790 ), English paleontologist .
November 27 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace (born 1815 ), English computing pioneer.
Cayley, Arthur (1879). "On the colourings of maps". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society . 1 (4). Blackwell: 259–261. doi :10.2307/1799998 . JSTOR 1799998 .
King, William T. (1896). History of the American Steam Fire-Engine .