1849 in science
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The year 1849 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Édouard Roche finds the limiting radius of tidal destruction and tidal creation for a body held together only by its self gravity, called the Roche limit, and uses it to explain why Saturn's rings do not condense into a satellite
[edit] Mathematics
- George Gabriel Stokes shows that solitary waves can arise from a combination of periodic waves
[edit] Physics
- Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault measure the speed of light to be about 298,000 km/s
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Roderick Murchison
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Joseph Prestwich
[edit] Births
- April 25 - Felix Klein (d. 1925), German mathematician.
- October 26 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (d. 1917), German mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- December 12 - Marc Isambard Brunel (b. 1769), engineer.
