1822 in science
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The year 1822 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Geology
- Friedrich Mohs introduces his system of classifying minerals and his scale of mineral hardness
- Georges Cuvier established new standards and methods in stratigraphy and palaeontology
- Gideon Mantell discovers the first fossil of the iguanodon
- John Phillips and William Conybeare identify the Carboniferous Period
- Omalius d'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposed the Jurassic System
Mathematics
- Charles Babbage begins construction of his difference machine, a device for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions
Awards
Births
- January 2 - Rudolf Clausius (d. 1888), physicist.
- January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann (d. 1890), German archaeologist.
- February 16 - Sir Francis Galton (d. 1911), explorer and biologist.
- May 11 - Henry Baker Tristram (d. 1906), ornithologist.
- July 22 - Gregor Mendel (d. 1884), geneticist.
- December 27 - Louis Pasteur (d. 1895), biologist.
Deaths
- August 25 - William Herschel (b. 1738), astronomer.
- November 6 - Claude Louis Berthollet (b. 1748), chemist.