1839 in science Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The year 1839 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Biology

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

• Carl Mosander discovers lanthanum

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

• Roderick Murchison names the Silurian period

• 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

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

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

• April 8 - Pierre Prévost, physicist (born 1751)
• June 27 - Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer (born 1791)
• August 28 - William Smith, geologist (born 1769)
• September 29 - Friedrich Mohs, German mineralogist (born 1773)
• November 15 - William Murdoch, inventor and technician (born 1754)

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