See also: 1895 in science, other events of 1896, 1897 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: Karl Gegenbaur Wollaston Medal for geology: Eduard Suess Births Deaths July 13 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, organic chemist (* 1829) September 18 - Hippolyte Fizeau, physicist (* 1819) December 10 - Alfred Nobel, inventor (* 1833)