- 1837 in science
The year 1837 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander published the first major investigation of the Sun's motion through space
*Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve publishes "Stellarum Duplicium Mensurae Micrometricae"Geology
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Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of glaciationMathematics
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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 publishedTechnology
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Samuel Morse exhibits his telegraph to Congress
*Thomas Davenport patents the first practical electrical motor
* William Crompton patents the silk power loom
* William Cooke andCharles Wheatstone patent their electromagnetic telegraph
*Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's steamship,SS Great Western , is launchedAwards
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Copley Medal : Antoine C. Becquerel;John Frederic Daniell
*Wollaston Medal : Proby Thomas Cautley; Hugh FalconerBirths
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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 .Deaths
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February 16 -Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (b. 1776), naturalist and advocate of transmutation.
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