1822 in science
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The year 1822 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Geology
- Friedrich Mohs introduces his system of classifying minerals and his scale of mineral hardness
- Georges Cuvier established new standards and methods in stratigraphy and palaeontology
- Gideon Mantell discovers the first fossil of the iguanodon
- John Phillips and William Conybeare identify the Carboniferous Period
- Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposed the Jurassic System
[edit] Mathematics
- Charles Babbage begins construction of his difference machine, a device for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Rudolf Clausius, physicist (d. 1888)
- January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
- February 16 - Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (d. 1911)
- July 22 - Gregor Mendel, geneticist (d. 1884)
- December 27 - Louis Pasteur, biologist (d. 1895)
[edit] Deaths
- August 13 - Jean-Robert Argand, mathematician (b. 1768)
- August 25 - William Herschel, astronomer (b. 1738)
- November 6 - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (b. 1748)
