1855 in science
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The year 1855 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Paleontology
- The first archaeopteryx fossil found in Bavaria, Germany
[edit] Physics
- James Clerk Maxwell unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory, classical electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic wave
[edit] Chemistry
- May 10: Bunsen burner is invented by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Léon Foucault
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Henry De la Beche
[edit] Births
- January 5 - King Camp Gillette (d. 1932), inventor.
- January 21 - John Moses Browning (d. 1926), inventor
- January 28 - William Seward Burroughs (d. 1898), inventor of the adding machine
- March 13 - Percival Lowell (d. 1916), astronomer.
- November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort (d. 1913), meteorologist.
[edit] Deaths
- February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss (b. 1777), mathematician.
- April 13 - Henry De la Beche (b. 1796), geologist.
- July 8 - William Edward Parry (b. 1790), Arctic explorer.
