1829 in science
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The year 1829 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Mathematics
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky publishes his work on hyperbolic non-Euclidean geometry
[edit] Palaeontology
- Jules Desnoyers names the Quaternary period
- Philippe-Charles Schmerling discovers a Neandertal fossil, the partial cranium of a small child
[edit] Technology
- William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter
- Louis Braille invents embossed printing that allows the visually impaired to read pre-printed books.
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: not awarded
[edit] Births
- February 2 – Alfred Brehm (d. 1884), zoologist.
- September 7 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (d. 1896), chemist.
- September 30 – Joseph Wolstenholme (d. 1891), mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel (b. 1802), mathematician.
- May 10 - Thomas Young (b. 1773), physicist.
- May 29 – Humphry Davy (b. 1778), chemist.
- November 14 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (b. 1763), chemist.
- December 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (b. 1744), naturalist.
