- 1848 in science
The year 1848 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
* Lord Rosse studies M1 and names it the
Crab Nebula .
*William Cranch Bond andWilliam Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon.Biology
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Charles Darwin andAlfred Russel Wallace first propose their theory ofevolution by means ofnatural selection in a paper to theLinnean Society of London.Physics
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Lord Kelvin discovers the absolute zero point of temperature.Awards
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Copley Medal :John Couch Adams
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:William Buckland Births
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May 23 -Otto Lilienthal (d. 1896),aviation pioneer.
*November 8 -Gottlob Frege (d. 1925),mathematician .Deaths
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January 9 -Caroline Herschel (b. 1750),astronomer .
*August 7 -Jöns Jakob Berzelius (b. 1779),chemist .
*August 12 -George Stephenson (b. 1781),locomotive engineer .
*December 18 -Bernhard Bolzano (b. 1781),mathematician .
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