1845 In Science

Astronomy

• April Lord Rosse discovers that the nebula M51 has a spiral structure

Physics

• September 13 Michael Faraday discovers that an intense magnetic field can rotate the plane of polarized light

Awards

• Copley Medal: Theodor Schwann
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: John Phillips

Births

• March 3 - Georg Cantor (d. 1918), mathematician.
• March 27 - Wilhelm Rntgen (d. 1923), physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate.
• September 11 - Emile Baudot (d. 1903), telegraph engineer.

Deaths

• March 13 - John Frederic Daniell (b. 1790), chemist and physicist.
• October 18 - Dominique, comte de Cassini (b. 1748), French astronomer.

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