- 1866 in science
The year 1866 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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Giovanni Schiaparelli realizes thatmeteor streams occur when theEarth passes through theorbit of acomet that has left debris along its path.
*William Huggins studied theemission spectrum of anova and discovers that it is surrounded by a cloud ofhydrogen .Biology
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Gregor Mendel published his laws of inheritance.
*Ernst Haeckel challenged theplant /animal division of life, observing that single celled organisms, theprotist s, do not fit into either category.
* Frederick Smith first discoversFormica candida in theBournemouth ,England , describing it as "Formica gagates".Chemistry
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Dynamite invented byAlfred Nobel .
*Augustus von Hofmann proposes the now standard system ofhydrocarbon nomenclature.Medicine
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Max Schultze discovers two sorts of 'receptors' in theretina .
*Patrick Manson starts a school of tropical medicine inHong Kong Awards
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Copley Medal :Julius Plücker
* Wollaston Medal for Geology:Charles Lyell Births
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September 25 -Thomas Hunt Morgan (d. 1945),biologist , Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
*November 30 -Robert Broom (d. 1951),paleontologist Deaths
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July 20 -Bernhard Riemann (b. 1826),mathematician .
*December 1 -George Everest (b. 1790), surveyor andgeographer .
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