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Overview of the events of 1803 in science
The year 1803 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] Exploration [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Meteorology [ edit ] Luke Howard publishes the basis of the modern classification and nomenclature of clouds.[13] [14] Technology [ edit ] Transport [ edit ] February 26 – Arnold Adolph Berthold , German physiologist (died 1861)
February 28 – Christian Heinrich von Nagel , German geometer (died 1882)
April 1 – Miles Joseph Berkeley , English cryptogamist (died 1889)
May 12 – Justus von Liebig , German chemist (died 1873)
May 24 – Charles Lucien Bonaparte , French naturalist (died 1857)
June 8 – Amalia Assur , Swedish dentist (died 1889 )
July 31 – John Ericsson , Swedish-born mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1889)
October 3 – John Gorrie , American physician and inventor (died 1855)
October 6 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , Prussian physicist and climatologist (died 1879)
October 16 – Robert Stephenson , English railway engineer (died 1859)
November 29 – Christian Doppler , Austrian mathematician and discoverer of the Doppler effect (died 1853)
December 21 – Joseph Whitworth , English mechanical engineer (died 1887)
Choe Han-gi , Korean philosopher of science (died 1877)References [ edit ]
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