1836 in science

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The year 1836 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Biology 3 Chemistry 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads.

[edit] Biology

• October 2 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
• Theodor Schwann discovers pepsin in extracts from the stomach lining; first isolation of an animal enzyme.
• Andrew Crosse's electrical experiment seems to produce strange insects; they are named acarus calvanicus

[edit] Chemistry

• French chemist Auguste Laurent discovers o-phthalic acid (1,2-benzenecarboxylic acid) by oxidizing naphthalene tetrachloride.
• The chemical compound acetylene, also called ethyne, was discovered by Edmund Davy.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Jöns Jakob Berzelius; Francis Kiernan
• Wollaston Medal: Louis Agassiz

[edit] Births

• May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich (d. 1918), chemist.
• Joseph Lockyear, astronomer.

[edit] Deaths

• June 10 - André-Marie Ampère (b. 1775), physicist.