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Overview of the events of 1803 in science
The year 1803 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Luke Howard publishes the basis of the modern classification and nomenclature of clouds.[ 13] [ 14] 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)
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