Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The year 1838 CE in science and technology See also: 1837 in science, other events of 1838, 1839 in science and the list of years in science. Table of contents 1 Astronomy 2 Biology 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths Astronomy Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel makes the first accurate measurement of distance to a star, 61 Cygni, using parallax. Thomas Henderson (Alpha centauri) and Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (Vega) announce their measurements using parallax shortly afterwards Biology Proteins discovered by Jöns Jacob Berzelius Matthias Schleiden discovers that all living plant tissue is composed of cells Awards Copley Medal: Carl Friedrich Gauss Wollaston Medal: Richard Owen Births January 5 Camille Jordan, mathematician († 1922) January 29 - Edward Morley, chemist († 1923) February 18 - Ernst Mach, physicist († 1916) April 16 - Ernest Solvay, chemist († 1922) April 21 - John Muir, naturalist († 1914) Deaths This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.