1829 in science
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The year 1829 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
Mathematics
- Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky publishes his work on hyperbolic non-Euclidean geometry
Palaeontology
- Jules Desnoyers names the Quaternary period
- Philippe-Charles Schmerling discovers a Neandertal fossil, the partial cranium of a small child
Technology
- William Austin Burt patents the first typewriter
Awards
- Copley Medal: not awarded
Births
- February 2 – Alfred Brehm (d. 1884), zoologist.
- September 7 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (d. 1896), chemist.
- September 30 – Joseph Wolstenholme (d. 1891), mathematician.
Deaths
- April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel (b. 1802), mathematician.
- May 10 - Thomas Young (b. 1773), physicist.
- May 29 – Humphry Davy (b. 1778), chemist.
- November 14 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (b. 1763), chemist.
- December 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (b. 1744), naturalist.
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