1848 in science
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1847 in science
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The year 1848 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Astronomy
- Lord Rosse studies M1 and names it the Crab Nebula
- William Cranch Bond and William Lassell discover Hyperion, Saturn's moon
Biology
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace first propose their theory of evolution by means of natural selection in a paper to the Linnean Society of London.
Physics
- Lord Kelvin discovers the absolute zero point of temperature
Awards
- Copley Medal: John Couch Adams
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Buckland
Births
- May 23 - Otto Lilienthal (d. 1896), aviation pioneer.
- November 8 - Gottlob Frege (d. 1925), mathematician.
Deaths
- January 9 - Caroline Herschel (b. 1750), astronomer.
- August 7 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius (b. 1779), chemist.
- August 12 - George Stephenson (b. 1781), locomotive engineer.
- December 18 - Bernhard Bolzano (b. 1781), mathematician.