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1837 in science
The year 1837 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
See also: 1836 in science, other events of 1837, 1838 in science and the list of years in science.
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Astronomy
- Friedrich Argelander published the first major investigation of the Sun's motion through space
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve publishes Stellarum Duplicium Mensurae Micrometricae
Geology
- Louis Agassiz postulates his theory of glaciation
Mathematics
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet proposes the modern definition of a function
- Bernard Bolzano publishes Wissenschaftslehre
- Simeon Poisson's lectures on probability and decision theory were published
Technology
- Samuel Morse exhibits his telegraph to Congress
- Thomas Davenport patents the first practical electrical motor
- William Crompton patents the silk power loom
- William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent their electromagnetic telegraph
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, SS Great Western, is launched
Awards
- Copley Medal: Antoine C. Becquerel; John Frederic Daniell
- Wollaston Medal: Proby Thomas Cautley; Hugh Falconer
Births
- January 16 Ellen Russell Emerson , ethnologist († 1907)
- January 17 Franηois Lenormant, assyriologist and numismatist († 1883)
- January 19 William Williams Keen , physician († 1932)
- March 23 Richard Anthony Proctor, astronomer († 1888)
- March 7 - Henry Draper, doctor, astronomer († 1882)
- April 3 John Burroughs , naturalist († 1921)
- May 26 Washington Roebling, civil engineer († 1926)
- September 8 Raphael Pumpelly , geologist († 1923)
- November 4 - James Douglas , metallurgist († 1918)
- November 14 Lucas Barrett, naturalist ( 1862)
- November 23 Johannes Diderik van der Waals, physicist († 1923)
- November 28 John Wesley Hyatt , inventor († 1920)
Deaths
- February 16 - Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, naturalist and advocate of transmutation (* 1776)
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