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Overview of the events of 1839 in science
The year 1839 in
science and
technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Exploration
Geology
Medicine
Technology
Awards
Births
January 26 –
Rachel Lloyd (d.
1900 ), American chemist.
January 27 –
Marie-Adolphe Carnot (died
1920 ),
French
chemist and mining engineer.
February 11
February 15 –
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (died 1920),
Danish
mathematician .
March 8 –
Josephine Cochrane (died
1913 ), American inventor of the first commercially successful dishwasher.
March 16 –
Sully Prudhomme (died
1907 ), French engineer and poet, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature .
April 4 –
James Blyth (died
1906 ),
Scottish electrical engineer.
April 12 –
Nikolai Przhevalsky (died
1888 ),
Russian -born
Polish
explorer .
May 8 –
George Miller Beard (died
1883 ), American
neurologist .
July 17 –
Ephraim Shay (died
1916 ), American steam locomotive engineer.
September 10 –
Charles Sanders Peirce (died
1914 ), American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist.
Deaths
January 22 –
Christian Ramsay , Lady Dalhousie (born
1786 ),
Scottish
botanist .
April 8 –
Pierre Prévost (born
1751 ),
Swiss
physicist .
June 27 –
Allan Cunningham (born
1791 ),
English botanist and
explorer .
August 28 –
William Smith (born
1769 ), English
geologist .
August 10 –
Sir John St Aubyn, 5th Baronet (born
1758 ), English fossil collector.
September 29 –
Friedrich Mohs (born
1773 ),
German
mineralogist .
October 24 – Sir
William Charles Ellis (born
1780 ), English psychiatric physician.
November 15 –
William Murdoch (born
1754 ), Scottish-born
inventor and
technician .
December 24 –
Davies Gilbert (born
1767 ), English promoter of science.
References