- 1838 in science
The year 1838 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star,61 Cygni , usingparallax . Thomas Henderson (Alpha Centauri ) andFriedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (Vega ) announce their measurements using parallax shortly afterwards.
*Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet makes the first quantitative measurements of theheat emitted by theSun .Biology
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Protein s discovered byJöns Jakob Berzelius
*Matthias Schleiden discovers that all living plant tissue is composed of cells.Chemistry
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Bulat steel alloy developed byPavel Petrovich Anosov .Exploration
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Australia ,Charles Sturt proves that the Hume and Murray are the same river.Technology
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January 6 -Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates theelectrical telegraph .
*David Bruce, Jr., invents the Pivotal Typecaster, which replaced hand typecasting in printing.Awards
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Copley Medal :Carl Friedrich Gauss
*Wollaston Medal :Richard Owen Births
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January 5 -Camille Jordan (d. 1922),mathematician .
*January 29 -Edward Morley (d. 1923),chemist .
*February 18 -Ernst Mach (d. 1916),physicist .
*March 3 -George William Hill (d. 1914),astronomer .
*April 8 -Ferdinand von Zeppelin (d. 1917), founder of theZeppelin airship company.
*April 16 -Ernest Solvay , (d. 1922)chemist .
*April 21 -John Muir (d. 1914), naturalist.Deaths
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August 21 -Adelbert von Chamisso (b. 1781),botanist .
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