- 1849 in science
The year 1849 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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Édouard Roche finds the limiting radius of tidal destruction and tidal creation for a body held together only by its self gravity, called theRoche limit , and uses it to explain why Saturn's rings do not condense into a satelliteMathematics
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George Gabriel Stokes shows that solitary waves can arise from a combination of periodic wavesPhysics
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Hippolyte Fizeau andLéon Foucault measure the speed of light to be about 298,000 km/sAwards
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Copley Medal :Roderick Murchison
*Wollaston Medal for Geology:Joseph Prestwich Births
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April 25 -Felix Klein (d. 1925), Germanmathematician .
*October 26 -Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (d. 1917), Germanmathematician .Deaths
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December 12 -Marc Isambard Brunel (b. 1769),engineer .
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