1855 in science
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The year 1855 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Paleontology
- The first archaeopteryx fossil found in Bavaria, Germany
Physics
- James Clerk Maxwell unifies electricity and magnetism into a single theory, classical electromagnetism, thereby showing that light is an electromagnetic wave
Awards
- Copley Medal: Léon Foucault
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Henry De la Beche
Births
- January 5 - King Camp Gillette (d. 1932), inventor.
- January 21 - John Moses Browning (d. 1926), inventor
- January 28 - William Seward Burroughs (d. 1898), inventor of the calculator
- March 13 - Percival Lowell (d. 1916), astronomer.
- November 5 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort (d. 1913), meteorologist.
Deaths
- February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss (b. 1777), mathematician.
- April 13 - Henry De la Beche (b. 1796), geologist.
- July 8 - William Edward Parry (b. 1790), Arctic explorer.