1868 in science

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The year 1868 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Charles Wheatstone
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Carl Friedrich Naumann

[edit] Births

• June 6 - Robert Falcon Scott (d. 1912), explorer.
• November 8 - Felix Hausdorff (d. 1942), mathematician.
• December 9 - Fritz Haber (d. 1934), chemist.

[edit] Deaths

• February 11 - Léon Foucault (b. 1819), physicist.
• May 22 - Julius Plücker (b. 1801), mathematician and physicist.