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1849 in science

The year 1849 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1848 in science, other events of 1849, 1850 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy 2 Mathematics 3 Physics 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

Astronomy

• Edouard 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

Mathematics

• George Gabriel Stokes shows that solitary waves can arise from a combination of periodic waves

Physics

• Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault measure the speed of light to be about 298,000 km/s

Awards

• Copley Medal: Roderick Murchison
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Joseph Prestwich

Births

• April 25 - Felix Klein, German mathematician († 1925)
• October 26 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician († 1917)

Deaths

• December 12 - Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer (born 1769)

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