Science
- Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.
- X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen.
- Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin independently suggested that human CO2 emissions might cause global warming.
- 1894: Argon was discovered by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay.
- 1895: Helium was discovered to exist on the Earth by William Ramsay, 27 years after first being detected spectrographically on the Sun in 1868.
- 1896: One year after helium's terrestrial discovery, neon, krypton, and xenon were discovered by William Ramsay and Morris Travers.
- 1897: Social scientist Émile Durkheim published the groundbreaking study Suicide.
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