1833 in science
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The year 1833 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- November 12–13 - A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed over Alabama.
[edit] Biology
- May 3 - The Entomological Society of London is inaugurated.
[edit] Chemistry
- Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law.
[edit] Geophysics
- November 25 - A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra.
[edit] Mathematics
- probable date - Paul Gerwien proves the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem formulated by Farkas Bolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable.
[edit] Paleontology
- Henry Witham publishes The Internal Structure of Fossil Vegetables found in the Carboniferous and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain in Edinburgh.
[edit] Physics
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber develops an electromagnetic telegraph.
[edit] Physiology and medicine
- William Beaumont publishes Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.
- Charles Bell publishes The Hand: its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design, the fourth Bridgewater Treatise.
- Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex" for a muscular reaction.
- Jean Lobstein proposes use of the term arteriosclerosis.[1]
- Johannes Peter Müller begins publication of his major physiology textbook Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.
- Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first enzyme identified).
[edit] Technology
- August 18 - The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.
- Obed Hussey patents a reaper in the United States.[2][3]
- Publication by Charles Knight of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge begins in London.
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Not awarded
[edit] Births
- March 25 - Fleeming Jenkin (d. 1885), engineer.
- May 5 - Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm Richthofen (d. 1905), geographer.
- June 29 - Peter Waage (d. 1900), chemist.
- October 9 - Eugene Langen (d. 1895), engineer
- October 17 - Paul Bert (d. 1886), physiologist.
- October 21 - Alfred Nobel (d. 1896), inventor.
- December 2 - Daniel von Recklinghausen (d. 1910), pathologist.
[edit] Deaths
- January 10 - Adrien-Marie Legendre (b. 1752), mathematician.
- February 6
- Fausto Elhuyar (b. 1755), chemist
- Pierre André Latreille (b. 1762), zoologist.
- February 14 - Gottlieb Kirchhoff (b. 1764), chemist.
- April 22 - Richard Trevithick (b. 1771), engineer and inventor.
- May 15 - Bewick Bridge (b. 1767), mathematician.
- July 5 - Nicéphore Niépce (b. 1765), inventor.
- October 31 - Johann Friedrich Meckel (b. 1781), anatomist.
[edit] References
- ^ Tedgui, Alain; Mallat, Ziad (2006). "Cytokines in Atherosclerosis". Physiological Reviews (American Physiological Society) 86: 515–581. doi:10.1152/physrev.00024.2005. http://physrev.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/86/2/515. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
- ^ "Obed Hussey". Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History. 2005-07-01. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=175. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
- ^ Greeno, Follett L., ed. (1912). Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19547/19547-h/19547-h.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
