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CHEMISTRY

William Hyde Wollaston discovers Palladium , and how to make malleable Platinum

Jöns Jakob Berzelius discovers Cerium

EXPLORATION

May 14 - The Lewis And Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River

GEOLOGY

Alexander Von Humboldt discovers that the Earth's magnetic field decreases from the poles to the equator

METEOROLOGY

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean Baptiste Biot study the atmosphere from a hot-air balloon

TECHNOLOGY

Richard Trevithick produces his first railway locomotive

AWARDS

BIRTHS

July 20 - Richard Owen , anatomist and paleontologist (died 1892 )

September 14 - John Gould , zoologist (died 1881 )

October 24 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber , physicist (died 1891 )

December 10 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi , mathematician (died 1851 )

Robert Schomburgk , explorer (died 1865 )

William Stokes , physician (died 1878 )

Heinrich Lenz , physicist (died 1865 )

Matthias Schleiden , biologist (died 1881 )

DEATHS

February 6 - Joseph Priestley , chemist (born 1733 )

October 2 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot , engineer (born 1725 )

Pierre Méchain , astronomer (born 1744 )