- 1835 in science
The year 1835 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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August 5 - First sighting of the return ofComet Halley byFather Dumouchel , director of theCollegio Romano at the Vatican. It was next seen byFriedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve on August 21 at theDorpat Observatory .John Herschel had been expected to find the comet first, as he was at the time inSouth Africa with his 20ft focal length reflector - then the largest telescope in the world. He finally observed it in October, and watched until it reached itsperihelion November 16. It reappeared in January 1836, and Herschel was the last person to observe it in May.
*August 25 - The first article in a longer fake series on discoveries made byJohn Herschel and a fictitious companion named Dr. Andrew Grant was published in the "New York Sun". This incident is now known as theGreat Moon Hoax .Chemistry
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Vinyl chloride first produced byJustus von Liebig and his studentHenri Victor Regnault .Mathematics
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Dirichlet provesDirichlet's theorem about prime numbers in arithmetical progressions.Physics
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William Rowan Hamilton statesHamilton's canonical equations of motion .
*Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis examines motion on a spinning surface deduces theCoriolis effect .Technology
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Samuel Colt invents therevolver .
*Samuel Morse develops theMorse code .Awards
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Copley Medal :William Snow Harris
*Wollaston Medal :Gideon Mantell Births
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March 12 -Simon Newcomb (d. 1909),mathematician andastronomer .
*March 14 -Giovanni Schiaparelli (d. 1910), Italianastronomer .
*March 24 - Jožef Stefan (d. 1893),physicist andmathematician .
*March 29 -Gustaf Zander (d. 1920),physician .Deaths
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August 18 -Friedrich Strohmeyer (b. 1776),chemist .
*September 14 - John Brinkley (b. 1763),astronomer .
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