1844 in science
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The year 1844 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
See also: 1843 in science, other events of 1844, 1845 in science and the list of years in science.
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Astronomy
- Friedrich Bessel explains the wobbling motions of Sirius and Procyon by suggesting that these stars have dark companions
Biology
- Gabriel Gustav Valentin notes the digestive activity of pancreatic juice
Chemistry
- Karl Klaus discovers ruthenium
Mathematics
- Joseph Liouville finds the first transcendental number
- Hermann Grassmann studys vectors with more than three dimensions
Technology
- May 11 - Samuel Morse send the first message using Morse code
- William Fox Talbot publishes the first photographic book , The Pencil of Nature
Awards
- Copley Medal: Carlo Matteucci
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Conybeare
Births
- March 25 - Adolf Engler, German botanist († 1930)
- April 20 - Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist famous for the invention of statistical mechanics († 1906)
- August 6 - James Henry Greathead, British civil engineer († 1896)
- August 13 - Friedrich Miescher, Swiss biologist († 1895)
- August 22 - George Washington DeLong, Arctic explorer († 1881)
- October 3 - Sir Patrick Manson, Scottish parasitologist, the "father of tropical medicine" († 1922)
- November 25 - Karl Benz, German automobile engineer († 1929)
Deaths
- June 19 - Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (* 1772)
- July 27 - John Dalton, English chemist and physicist (* 1766)
- August 30 - Francis Baily, English astronomer (* 1774)
- December 28 - Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer (* 1798)