1839 in science
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The year 1839 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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[edit] Biology
- Theodor Schwann proposes that all living matter is made up of cells
[edit] Chemistry
- Carl Mosander discovers lanthanum
[edit] Exploration
- James Clark Ross sets off on the first scientific expedition to survey Antarctica
[edit] Geology
- Roderick Murchison names the Silurian period
[edit] Technology
- January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process
- Invention of the bicycle by Kirkpatrick Macmillan
- Invention of the fuel cell by William Grove
- Development of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear
- Development of Babbitt metal by Isaac Babbitt
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs (d. 1903), theoretical physicist, chemist.
- April 12 - Nikolai Przhevalsky (d. 1888), explorer.
[edit] Deaths
- April 8 - Pierre Prévost (b. 1751), physicist.
- June 27 - Allan Cunningham (b. 1791), botanist and explorer.
- August 28 - William Smith (b. 1769), geologist
- September 29 - Friedrich Mohs (b. 1773), German mineralogist
- November 15 - William Murdoch (b. 1754), inventor and technician.