1837 in science

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The year 1837 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Geology 3 Mathematics 4 Technology 5 Awards 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• Friedrich Argelander published the first major investigation of the Sun's motion through space
• Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve publishes Stellarum Duplicium Mensurae Micrometricae

[edit] Geology

• Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of glaciation

[edit] Mathematics

• Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet proposes the modern definition of a function
• Bernard Bolzano publishes Wissenschaftslehre
• Simeon Poisson's lectures on probability and decision theory were published

[edit] Technology

• Samuel Morse exhibits his telegraph to Congress
• Thomas Davenport patents the first practical electrical motor
• William Crompton patents the silk power loom
• William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent their electromagnetic telegraph
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, SS Great Western, is launched

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Antoine C. Becquerel; John Frederic Daniell
• Wollaston Medal: Proby Thomas Cautley; Hugh Falconer

[edit] Births

• January 16 – Ellen Russell Emerson (d. 1907), ethnologist.
• January 17 – François Lenormant (d. 1883), assyriologist and numismatist.
• January 19 – William Williams Keen (d. 1932), physician.
• March 23 – Richard Anthony Proctor (d. 1888), astronomer.
• March 7 - Henry Draper (d. 1882), doctor, astronomer.
• April 3 – John Burroughs (d. 1921), naturalist.
• May 26 – Washington Roebling (d. 1926), civil engineer.
• September 8 – Raphael Pumpelly (d. 1923), geologist.
• November 4 - James Douglas (d. 1918), metallurgist.
• November 14 – Lucas Barrett (d. 1862), naturalist.
• November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals (d. 1923), physicist.
• November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt (d. 1920), inventor.

[edit] Deaths

• February 16 - Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (b. 1776), naturalist and advocate of transmutation.