1839 in science
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The year 1839 CE in science and technology

See also: 1838 in science, other events of 1839, 1840 in science and the list of years in science.

Biology

• Theodor Schwann proposes that all living matter is made up of cells

Chemistry

• Carl Mosander discovers lanthanum

Exploration

• James Clark Ross sets off on the first scientific expedition to survey Antarctica

Geology

• Roderick Murchison names the Silurian period

Technology

• January 9 - The French Academy of Sciences announces theDaguerreotype photography process
• Invention of the bicycle by Kirkpatrick Macmillan
• Invention of the fuel cell by William Grove
• Development of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear
• Development of Babbitt metal by Isaac Babbitt

Awards

• Copley Medal: Robert Brown
• Wollaston Medal: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Births

• February 11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist († 1903)
• April 12 - Nikolai Przewalski, explorer († 1888)

Deaths

• April 8 - Pierre Prévost, physicist (* 1751)
• August 28 - William Smith , geologist (* 1769)
• September 29 - Friedrich Mohs, German mineralogist (* 1773)
• November 15 - William Murdoch, inventor and technician (* 1754)

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