Wikipedia: 1837 in science

1837 in science
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The year 1837 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

Friedrich Argelander published the first major investigation of the Sun's motion through space

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve publishes Stellarum Duplicium Mensurae Micrometricae

Geology

Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of glaciation

Mathematics

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet proposes the modern definition of a function
Bernard Bolzano publishes Wissenschaftslehre
Simeon Poisson's lectures on probability and decision theory were published

Technology

Samuel Morse exhibits his telegraph to Congress
Thomas Davenport patents the first practical electrical motor
William Crompton patents the silk power loom
William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent their electromagnetic telegraph
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, SS Great Western, is launched

Awards

Copley Medal: Antoine C. Becquerel; John Frederic Daniell
Wollaston Medal: Proby Thomas Cautley; Hugh Falconer

Births

January 16 – Ellen Russell Emerson, ethnologist († 1907)
January 17 – François Lenormant, assyriologist and numismatist († 1883)
January 19 – William Williams Keen, physician († 1932)
March 23 – Richard Proctor, astronomer († 1888)
April 3 – John Burroughs, naturalist († 1921)
May 26 – Washington Roebling, civil engineer († 1926)
September 8 – Raphael Pumpelly, geologist († 1923)
November 4 - James Douglas, metallurgist († 1918)
November 14 – Lucas Barrett, naturalist († 1862)
November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, physicist († 1923)
November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt, inventor († 1920)

Deaths

February 16 - Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, naturalist and advocate of transmutation (* 1776)