- 1839 in science
The year 1839 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Biology
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Theodor Schwann proposes that all living matter is made up of cellsChemistry
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Carl Mosander discoverslanthanum Exploration
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James Clark Ross sets off on the first scientific expedition to surveyAntarctica Geology
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Roderick Murchison names theSilurian periodTechnology
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January 9 - TheFrench Academy of Sciences announces theDaguerreotype photography process
*Invention of the bicycle byKirkpatrick Macmillan
*Invention of the fuel cell by William Grove
*Development of vulcanized rubber byCharles Goodyear
*Development ofBabbitt metal byIsaac Babbitt Awards
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Copley Medal : Robert Brown
*Wollaston Medal :Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Births
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February 11 -Josiah Willard Gibbs (d. 1903),theoretical physicist ,chemist .
*April 12 -Nikolai Przhevalsky (d. 1888), explorer.Deaths
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April 8 -Pierre Prévost (b. 1751),physicist .
*June 27 - Allan Cunningham (b. 1791),botanist and explorer.
*August 28 - William Smith (b. 1769),geologist
*September 29 -Friedrich Mohs (b. 1773), Germanmineralogist
*November 15 -William Murdoch (b. 1754),inventor andtechnician .
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