1817 in science
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The year 1817 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Biology
- Georges Cuvier publishes Le Règne Animal.
[edit] Chemistry
- Discovery of cadmium by Friedrich Strohmeyer.
- Discovery of lithium by Johann Arfvedson.
- Discovery of selenium by Jöns Jakob Berzelius.
- Pierre-Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou isolate chlorophyll.[1]
- Leopold Gmelin begins publication of his Handbuch der theoretischen Chemie.[2]
[edit] Medicine
- First cholera pandemic originates in India.[3]
- James Parkinson publishes An Essay on the Shaking Palsy, describing "paralysis agitans", the condition which will become known as Parkinson's disease.
[edit] Technology
- March - Ackermann steering geometry invented by Georg Lankensperger.
- July 10 - David Brewster patents the kaleidoscope.[4]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- June 30 - Joseph Dalton Hooker (d. 1911), botanist.
- July 15 - John Fowler (d. 1898), civil engineer.
- September 10 - Richard Spruce (d. 1893), botanist
- October 10 - Christoph Heinrich Buys-Ballot (d. 1890), meteorologist.
- October 17 - Alfred Des Cloizeaux (d. 1897), mineralogist.
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth (b. 1743), chemist.
- April 12 - Charles Messier (b. 1730), astronomer.
- June 11 - William Gregor (b. 1761), mineralogist.
- July 28 - Abraham Gottlob Werner (b. 1749), geologist.
- August 7 - Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (b. 1739), industrialist.
- September 18 - William Charles Wells (b. 1757), physician.
- November 7 - Jean-André Deluc (b. 1727), geologist.
- December 15 - Abate Giovanni Battista Guglielmini (b. 1763), physicist.
[edit] References
- ^ Delépine, Marcel (September 1951). "Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Caventou". Journal of Chemical Education 28 (9): 454. doi:10.1021/ed028p454. ISSN 0021-9584. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed028p454.
- ^ "Leopold Gmelin". Whonamedit?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2219.html. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ^ Hays, J. N. (2005). Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1851096582. http://books.google.com/books?id=GyE8Qt-kS1kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PPA193,M2.
- ^ British patent no. 4136. "Brewster Patent". http://www.brewstersociety.com/brewster_patent.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
