1837 in science
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The year 1837 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander published the first major investigation of the Sun's motion through space
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve publishes Stellarum Duplicium Mensurae Micrometricae
[edit] Geology
- Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of glaciation
[edit] Mathematics
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet proposes the modern definition of a function
- Bernard Bolzano publishes Wissenschaftslehre
- Simeon Poisson's lectures on probability and decision theory were published
[edit] Technology
- Samuel Morse exhibits his telegraph to Congress
- Thomas Davenport patents the first practical electrical motor
- William Crompton patents the silk power loom
- William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent their electromagnetic telegraph
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, SS Great Western, is launched
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Antoine C. Becquerel; John Frederic Daniell
- Wollaston Medal: Proby Thomas Cautley; Hugh Falconer
[edit] Births
- January 16 – Ellen Russell Emerson (d. 1907), ethnologist.
- January 17 – François Lenormant (d. 1883), assyriologist and numismatist.
- January 19 – William Williams Keen (d. 1932), physician.
- March 23 – Richard Anthony Proctor (d. 1888), astronomer.
- March 7 - Henry Draper (d. 1882), doctor, astronomer.
- April 3 – John Burroughs (d. 1921), naturalist.
- May 26 – Washington Roebling (d. 1926), civil engineer.
- September 8 – Raphael Pumpelly (d. 1923), geologist.
- November 4 - James Douglas (d. 1918), metallurgist.
- November 14 – Lucas Barrett (d. 1862), naturalist.
- November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals (d. 1923), physicist.
- November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt (d. 1920), inventor.
[edit] Deaths
- February 16 - Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (b. 1776), naturalist and advocate of transmutation.
