1849 In Science

Astronomy

• douard 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

Biology

• Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.

Mathematics

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

Physics

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

Awards

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

Births

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

Deaths

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

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