- 1820 in science
The year 1820 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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Royal Astronomical Society is founded.Biology
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Christian Friedrich Nasse formulates Nasse's law:hemophilia occurs only in males and is passed on by unaffected females.Computing
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Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar makes his "Arithmometer", the first mass-produced calculator.Exploration
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January 27 –Antarctica is sighted for the first time by British navy captainEdward Bransfield .Physics
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Hans Christian Ørsted discovers relationship betweenelectricity andmagnetism .
* Laws ofelectrodynamics are established byAndré-Marie Ampère .Awards
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Copley Medal -Hans Christian Ørsted Births
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March 24 - Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (d. 1891),physicist .
*April 16 -Victor Alexandre Puiseux (d. 1883),mathematician .
*July 2 –William John Macquorn Rankine (d. 1872),physicist .
*August 2 -John Tyndall (d. 1893),physicist .Deaths
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June 19 –Joseph Banks (b. 1743), naturalist.
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