The year 1892 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- Brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton publish With Nature and a Camera in the United Kingdom, the first nature book illustrated entirely from photographs.
- January 1 – Guido Fanconi (died 1979), Swiss pediatrician.
- March 30 – Stefan Banach (died 1945), Polish mathematician.
- April 14 – Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (died 1979), German astronomer.
- May 3 – George Paget Thomson (died 1975), English atomic physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1937).
- July 24 – Alice Ball (died 1916), African American chemist.
- July 25 – Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes (died 1973), South African-born military physician.
- August 15 – Louis-Victor de Broglie (died 1987), French recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1929).
- August 19 – Elizabeth Kozlova (died 1975), Russian ornithologist
- August 26
- September 6 – Edward Victor Appleton (died 1965), English radiophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1947).
- October 26 – André Chapelon (died 1978), French steam locomotive designer.
- November 5 – J. B. S. Haldane (died 1964), British geneticist.
- November 21 – Margery C. Carlson (died 1985), American botanist.
- December 12 – Herman Potočnik (Noordung) (died 1929), Slovene pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics.
- January 2 – George Biddell Airy (born 1801), English astronomer royal.
- January 21 – John Couch Adams (born 1819), English mathematician.
- March 29 – Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (born 1816), English ophthalmologist, histologist and anatomist.
- April 2 – Emin Pasha (born 1840), Silesian Jewish Ottoman explorer.
- May 5 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann (born 1818), German chemist
- June 27 – Carl Schorlemmer (born 1834), German organic chemist.
- December 6 – Werner von Siemens (born 1816), German electrical engineer.
- December 18 – Richard Owen (born 1804), English anatomist and paleontologist.
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