- 1833 in science
The year 1833 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Biology
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Anselme Payen discoversdiastase (the first enzyme to be discovered).
* Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex" for a muscular reaction.Chemistry
* Thomas Graham proposes
Graham's Law .Physics
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber develops an electromagnetic telegraph.Awards
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Copley Medal : Not awardedBirths
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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 .Deaths
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January 10 -Adrien-Marie Legendre (b. 1752),mathematician .
*February 6 -Pierre André Latreille (b. 1762),zoologist .
*February 14 -Gottlieb Kirchhoff (b. 1764),chemist .
*April 22 -Richard Trevithick (b. 1771),engineer andinventor .
*July 5 -Nicéphore Niépce (b. 1765), inventor.
*October 31 -Johann Friedrich Meckel (b. 1781),anatomist .
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