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The year 1829 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

MATHEMATICS

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky publishes his work on hyperbolic Non-Euclidean Geometry

PALAEONTOLOGY

Jules Desnoyers names the Quaternary period

Philippe-Charles Schmerling discovers a Neandertal fossil, the partial cranium of a small child

TECHNOLOGY

William Austin Burt patents the first Typewriter

AWARDS

Copley Medal : not awarded

BIRTHS

February 2 – Alfred Brehm (d. 1884 ), Zoologist .

September 7 – Friedrich August Kekulé Von Stradonitz (d. 1896 ), Chemist .

September 30 – Joseph Wolstenholme (d. 1891 ), Mathematician .

DEATHS

April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel (b. 1802 ), Mathematician .

May 10 - Thomas Young (b. 1773 ), Physicist .

May 29 – Humphry Davy (b. 1778 ), Chemist .

November 14 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (b. 1763 ), Chemist .

December 28 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (b. 1744 ), Naturalist .