1849 in science Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The year 1849 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

• Édouard Roche finds the limiting radius of tidal destruction and tidal creation for a body held together only by its self gravity, called the Roche limit, and uses it to explain why Saturn's rings do not condense into a satellite

• Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.

• George Gabriel Stokes shows that solitary waves can arise from a combination of periodic waves

• Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault measure the speed of light to be about 298,000 km/s

• Copley Medal: Roderick Murchison
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: Joseph Prestwich

• April 25 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (died 1925)
• October 26 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (died 1917)

• December 12 - Marc Isambard Brunel, engineer (born 1769)

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