- 1822 in science
The year 1822 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Geology
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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 theiguanodon
* John Phillips andWilliam Conybeare identify the Carboniferous Period
*Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposed the Jurassic SystemMathematics
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Charles Babbage begins construction of his difference machine, a device for calculatinglogarithm s and trigonometric functionsAwards
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Copley Medal :William Buckland Births
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January 2 -Rudolf Clausius , physicist (d. 1888)
*January 6 -Heinrich Schliemann , Germanarchaeologist (d. 1890)
*February 16 - SirFrancis Galton , explorer, biologist (d. 1911)
*July 22 -Gregor Mendel , geneticist (d. 1884)
*December 27 -Louis Pasteur , biologist (d. 1895)Deaths
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August 13 -Jean-Robert Argand , mathematician (b. 1768)
*August 25 -William Herschel , astronomer (b. 1738)
*November 6 -Claude Louis Berthollet , chemist (b. 1748)
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