- 1829 in science
The year 1829 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Mathematics
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Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky publishes his work on hyperbolicnon-Euclidean geometry Palaeontology
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Jules Desnoyers names theQuaternary period
*Philippe-Charles Schmerling discovers aNeandertal fossil, the partial cranium of a small childTechnology
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William Austin Burt patents the firsttypewriter
*Louis Braille inventsembossed printing that allows the visually impaired to read pre-printed books.
* October -Rainhill Trials , a locomotive competition in EnglandAwards
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Copley Medal : not awardedBirths
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February 2 –Alfred Brehm (d. 1884),zoologist .
*September 7 –Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (d. 1896),chemist .
*September 30 –Joseph Wolstenholme (d. 1891),mathematician .Deaths
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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.
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