1853 in science
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The year 1853 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
[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.
