Science in the 19th Century

Science in the 19th Century  

-appears as a golden age.

Science expanded successfully into new fields of inquiry, combination of math and experiment in physics, application of theory to experiment in chemistry and controlled experimentation in biology.

Science and Technology in the mid 19th Century

The last half of the 19th century was a period which experienced rapid progress in science and technology. There were important breakthroughs in:

• iron and steel technology
• electricity
• weapons
• physics and chemistry
• sociology, psychology and biology

• Dalton

- English schoolmaster. he proposed that atoms were the smallest indistructible parts of matter.

• Mendelev

- he began to developed the table of elements which helped in the discovery of new elements.

•  Radium

December 26, 1948, Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of the element radiumradium is easily separated existence of the second element, demonstrated by its radioactive properties.

• Psychology

Sigmund Freud looked for explanation for individual human behavior beyond the rational level

• Biology

Charles Darwin developed the Theory of Evolution Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection