1833 in science
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The year 1833 in science and technology involved several significant events, discoveries, and situations, listed below.
Astronomy
- November 12â13 â A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed over Alabama.
Biology
- May 3 â The Entomological Society of London is inaugurated.
- Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is published anonymously.
Chemistry
- Thomas Graham proposes Graham's law.
Computer science
- June 5 â Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville.[1]
Geophysics
- November 25 â A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra.
Mathematics
- probable date â Paul Gerwien proves the BolyaiâGerwien theorem formulated by Farkas Bolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable.
Paleontology
- Henry Witham publishes The Internal Structure of Fossil Vegetables found in the Carboniferous and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain in Edinburgh.
Physics
- Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber develop an electromagnetic telegraph at Göttingen.
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.[2]
- Johannes Peter Müller begins publication of his major physiology textbook Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.
- Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first enzyme identified).
Technology
- August 18 â 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.[3][4]
- Cornish engineer Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a warning device at Dowlais Ironworks in Wales.[5][6]
- Publication by Charles Knight of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge begins in London.
Awards
- Copley Medal: Not awarded[7]
Births
- January 19 â Alfred Clebsch (died 1872), German mathematician.
- February 26 â Georges Pouchet (died 1894), French comparative anatomist.
- March 14 â Lucy Hobbs Taylor (died 1910), American dentist.
- March 23 â Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (died 1890), German psychiatrist.
- March 25 â Fleeming Jenkin (died 1885), English electrical engineer.
- May 5 â Ferdinand von Richthofen (died 1905), German geographer.
- June 29 â Peter Waage (died 1900), Norwegian chemist.
- October 9 â Eugen Langen (died 1895), German mechanical engineer.
- October 17 â Paul Bert (died 1886), French physiologist.
- October 21 â Alfred Nobel (died 1896), Swedish inventor.
- November 27 - Ãmile Vallin (died 1924), French military physician.[8]
- December 2 â Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (died 1910), German pathologist.
Deaths
- January 10 â Adrien-Marie Legendre (born 1752), mathematician.
- February 6
- Fausto Elhuyar (born 1755), chemist
- Pierre André Latreille (born 1762), zoologist.
- February 14 â Gottlieb Kirchhoff (born 1764), chemist.
- April 22 â Richard Trevithick (born 1771), engineer and inventor.
- May 15 â Bewick Bridge (born 1767), mathematician.
- July 5 â Nicéphore Niépce (born 1765), inventor.
- October 31 â Johann Friedrich Meckel (born 1781), anatomist.