1845 in science
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The year 1845 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- April – Lord Rosse discovers that the nebula M51 has a spiral structure.
[edit] Physics
- September 13 – Michael Faraday discovers that an intense magnetic field can rotate the plane of polarized light.
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Theodor Schwann
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: John Phillips
[edit] Births
- March 3 - Georg Cantor (d. 1918), mathematician.
- March 27 - Wilhelm Röntgen (d. 1923), physicist, discoverer of X-rays, Nobel laureate.
- May 16 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916).
- June 16 - Heinrich Dressel, German archaeologist (d. 1920).
- September 11 - Emile Baudot (d. 1903), telegraph engineer.
[edit] Deaths
- March 13 - John Frederic Daniell (b. 1790), chemist and physicist.
- October 18 - Dominique, comte de Cassini (b. 1748), French astronomer.
