1853 in science

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The year 1853 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Adolphe d'Archiac; Edouard de Verneuil

[edit] Births

• July 18 - Hendrik Lorentz (d. 1928), Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
• September 2 - Wilhelm Ostwald (d. 1932), chemist.

[edit] Deaths

• March 17 - Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician and discoverer of the Doppler effect (b. 1803)
• April 23 - Auguste Laurent (b. 1807), chemist.
• October 2 - François Arago (d. 1786), mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.