- 1855 in science
The year 1855 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Paleontology
* The first
archaeopteryx fossil found inBavaria ,Germany Physics
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James Clerk Maxwell unifieselectricity andmagnetism into a single theory, classical electromagnetism, thereby showing thatlight is an electromagneticwave Chemistry
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May 10 :Bunsen burner is invented byRobert Wilhelm Bunsen Awards
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Copley Medal :Léon Foucault
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:Henry De la Beche Births
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January 5 -King Camp Gillette (d. 1932),inventor .
*January 21 -John Moses Browning (d. 1926), inventor
*January 28 - William Seward Burroughs (d. 1898), inventor of theadding machine
*March 13 -Percival Lowell (d. 1916),astronomer .
*November 5 -Léon Teisserenc de Bort (d. 1913),meteorologist .Deaths
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February 23 -Carl Friedrich Gauss (b. 1777),mathematician .
*April 13 -Henry De la Beche (b. 1796),geologist .
*July 8 -William Edward Parry (b. 1790),Arctic explorer.
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