1848 In Science

Astronomy

• Lord Rosse studies M1 and names it the Crab Nebula
• William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon

Biology

Physics

• Lord Kelvin discovers the absolute zero point of temperature

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Couch Adams
• Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Buckland

Births

• May 23 - Otto Lilienthal (d. 1896), aviation pioneer.
• November 8 - Gottlob Frege (d. 1925), mathematician.

Deaths

• January 9 - Caroline Herschel (b. 1750), astronomer.
• August 7 - Jns Jakob Berzelius (b. 1779), chemist.
• August 12 - George Stephenson (b. 1781), locomotive engineer.
• December 18 - Bernhard Bolzano (b. 1781), mathematician.

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