Editing 1852 in science (section)

==Births==
* March 25 – [[Charles Loomis Dana]] (died [[1935 in science|1935]]), American [[neurologist]].
* April 10 – [[Arthur Vierendeel]] (died [[1940 in science|1940]]), Belgian [[civil engineer]].
* May 1 – [[Santiago Ramón y Cajal]] (died [[1934 in science|1934]]), Spanish neuroscientist, winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
* August 4 – [[Catharine van Tussenbroek]] (died [[1925 in science|1925]]), Dutch [[physician]].
* August 30 – [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff|Jacobus van 't Hoff]] (died [[1911 in science|1911]]), Dutch [[chemist]].
* September 9 – [[John Henry Poynting]] (died [[1914 in science|1914]]), English [[physicist]], discoverer of the [[Poynting–Robertson effect]] and the [[Poynting vector]].
* September 15 – [[Edward Bouchet]] (died [[1918 in science|1918]]), African American physicist.
* September 23 – [[William Stewart Halsted]] (died [[1922 in science|1922]]), American [[surgeon]].
* September 28 – [[Isis Pogson]] (died [[1945 in science|1945]]), English [[astronomer]] and [[meteorologist]].
* October 2 – [[William Ramsay]] (died [[1916 in science|1916]]), Scottish winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]].
* October 6 – [[Bruno Abakanowicz]] (died [[1900 in science|1900]]), Polish [[mathematician]], inventor and electrical engineer.
* October 9 – [[Hermann Emil Fischer]] (died [[1919 in science|1919]]), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
* November 12 - [[Xavier Arnozan]] (died [[1928 in science|1928]]), French physician.<ref>{{Base Léonore|19800035/241/31985}}</ref>
* December 13 – [[Charles E. de M. Sajous]] (died [[1929 in science|1929]]), American [[endocrinologist]].
* December 15 – [[Henri Becquerel]] (died [[1908 in science|1908]]), French physicist.