1849 in science

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The year 1849 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Mathematics 3 Physics 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• Édouard Roche finds the limiting radius of tidal destruction and tidal creation for a body held together only by its self gravity, called the Roche limit, and uses it to explain why Saturn's rings do not condense into a satellite

[edit] Mathematics

• George Gabriel Stokes shows that solitary waves can arise from a combination of periodic waves

[edit] Physics

• Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault measure the speed of light to be about 298,000 km/s

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Roderick Murchison
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Joseph Prestwich

[edit] Births

• April 25 - Felix Klein (d. 1925), German mathematician.
• October 26 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (d. 1917), German mathematician.

[edit] Deaths

• December 12 - Marc Isambard Brunel (b. 1769), engineer.