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Overview of the events of 1829 in science
The year 1829 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Chemistry
Mathematics
Medicine
Palaeontology
Technology
Higher Education
Awards
Births
- February 2
- March 23 – N. R. Pogson (died 1891 in science), English-born astronomer.
- April 28 – Charles Bourseul (died 1912), Belgian-born telegraph engineer.
- April 30 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter (died 1884), German-born geologist.
- July 30 – George Rolleston (died 1881), English physician and zoologist.
- August 13 (O.S. August 1) – Ivan Sechenov (died 1905), "the father of Russian physiology".
- August 23 – Moritz Cantor (died 1920), German historian of mathematics.
- August 24 - Emanuella Carlbeck (died 1901), Swedish pioneer in the education of students with intellectual disability.
- September 7 – August Kekulé (died 1896), German chemist.
- September 30
- October 15 - Asaph Hall (died 1907), American astronomer.
- November 4 - Hanna Hammarström (died 1909), Swedish inventor.
Deaths
- March 1 – Thomas Earnshaw (born 1749), English watchmaker.
- April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel (born 1802), Norwegian mathematician.
- May 10 – Thomas Young (born 1773), English physicist.
- May 29 – Humphry Davy (born 1778), English chemist.
- June 29 – James Smithson (born 1764), English mineralogist, chemist and benefactor.
- November 14 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (born 1763), French chemist.
- October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson (born 1755), English botanist.
- December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born 1744), French naturalist.
- undated - Huang Lü, Chinese scientist.
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