- 1836 in science
The year 1836 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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May 15 -Francis Baily , during aneclipse of thesun , observes the phenomenon named after him asBaily's beads .Biology
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October 2 - NaturalistCharles Darwin returns to Falmouth,England aboard the HMS "Beagle" after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop histheory of evolution .
*Theodor Schwann discoverspepsin in extracts from thestomach lining; first isolation of an animalenzyme .
*Andrew Crosse 's electrical experiment seems to produce strange insects; they are named "acarus calvanicus"Chemistry
* French
chemist Auguste Laurent discovers o-phthalic acid (1,2-benzenecarboxylic acid) by oxidizingnaphthalene tetrachloride.
* Thechemical compound acetylene , also called ethyne, was discovered byEdmund Davy .Awards
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Copley Medal :Jöns Jakob Berzelius ;Francis Kiernan
*Wollaston Medal :Louis Agassiz Births
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May 28 -Alexander Mitscherlich (d. 1918),chemist .
*Joseph Lockyear ,astronomer .Deaths
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June 10 -André-Marie Ampère (b. 1775),physicist .
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