1845 in science

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The year 1845 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Physics 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• April – Lord Rosse discovers that the nebula M51 has a spiral structure

[edit] Physics

• September 13 – Michael Faraday discovers that an intense magnetic field can rotate the plane of polarized light

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Theodor Schwann
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: John Phillips

[edit] Births

• March 3 - Georg Cantor (d. 1918), mathematician.
• March 27 - Wilhelm Röntgen (d. 1923), physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate.
• May 16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)
• June 16 - Heinrich Dressel, German archaeologist (d. 1920)
• September 11 - Emile Baudot (d. 1903), telegraph engineer.

[edit] Deaths

• March 13 - John Frederic Daniell (b. 1790), chemist and physicist.
• October 18 - Dominique, comte de Cassini (b. 1748), French astronomer.