In 1849 there were various scientific and technological events, some of which are presented below.
| 1849 in science |
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| 1839 • 1840 • 1841 • 1842 • 1843 • 1844 • 1845 |
| 1846 • 1847 • 1848 • 1849 • 1850 • 1851 • 1852 |
| 1853 • 1854 • 1855 • 1856 • 1857 • 1858 • 1859 |
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Events
- January 1 - the first postage stamp of France .
- Adolf Berthold , experimentally proved that castration of male chickens prevents their development in roosters, which made him a pioneer of endocrinology .
Born
- March 7 - Luther Burbank , American biologist and breeder (died 1926 ).
- July 29 - Max Nordau , Austrian philosopher and leader of Zionism (d. 1923 ).
- September 14 - Ivan Petrovich Pavlov , Russian biologist, Nobel Prize in medicine (died 1936 ).
- September 19 - Nikolai Grigorievich Egorov , Russian physicist. (d. 1919 )
- October 10 - Karl Lang (died 1893 ), German meteorologist and teacher ; member of Leopoldina .
- November 2 - Lajos Loci , Hungarian geologist, geographer, geomorphologist, traveler. Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- November 28 - Vasily Antonovich Kansky , Russian linguist, philologist, translator and teacher.
Died to
- April 18 - Karl Ivanovich Rossi , Petersburg architect.
- December 12 - Mark Brunel , inventor of the tunnel shield , who built a tunnel under the Thames with his help.
See also
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