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Overview of the events of 1834 in science
The year 1834 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Events
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Paleontology
Mathematics
Mechanics
Medicine
Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
January 7 – Johann Philipp Reis (died 1874 ), German physicist and inventor .
January 15 – Frederick DuCane Godman (died 1919 ), English lepidopterist , entomologist and ornithologist .
January 17 – August Weismann (died 1914 ), German biologist .
February 7 – Dmitri Mendeleev (died 1907 ), Russian chemist .
February 16 – Ernst Haeckel (died 1919 ), German zoologist .
February 20 (O.S. February 8) – Nikolai Kaufman (died 1870 ), Russian botanist .
March 17 – Gottlieb Daimler (died 1900 ), German mechanical engineer and automotive pioneer.
April 30 – John Lubbock (died 1913 ), English naturalist and archaeologist .
June 22 – William Chester Minor (died 1920 ), Ceylonese-born American military surgeon , lexicographer and murderer.
July 6 – Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (died 1923 ), English surveyor , geologist and naturalist.
August 5 – Ewald Hering (died 1918 ), German physiologist .
August 10 – Maurice Raynaud (died 1881 ), French physician .
August 22 – Samuel Pierpont Langley (died 1906 ), American astronomer .
August 23 – Hugh Owen Thomas (died 1891 ), Welsh-born orthopaedic surgeon .
August 29 – Hermann Sprengel (died 1906 ), German-born chemist.
September 30 – Carl Schorlemmer (died 1892 ), German organic chemist .
December 15 – Charles Augustus Young (died 1908 ), American astronomer.
December 24 – Augustus George Vernon Harcourt (died 1919), English chemist.
Deaths
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