1828 in science
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The year 1828 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Félix Savary computes the first orbit of a visual double star when he calculates the orbit of the double star Xi Ursae Majoris.
[edit] Biology
- Karl Ernst von Baer lays the foundations of the science of comparative embryology with his book Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere
- Friedrich Woehler synthesizes urea; first synthesis of an organic compound
[edit] Chemistry
- Biochemistry: Urea becomes the first organic compound to be artificially synthesised, by Friedrich Wöhler, disproving a cornerstone of vitalism: The belief that life was not subject to the laws of science the way nonlife was.
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius discovers thorium
[edit] Mathematics
- George Green proves Green's theorem
[edit] Palaeontology
- Adolphe Theodore Brongniart publishes Prodrome d'une histoire des Végétaux Fossils, a study of fossil plants.
- Mary Anning discovers Britain's first pterosaur fossil at Lyme Regis
[edit] Physics
- William Rowan Hamilton publishes Theory of Systems of Rays
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: not awarded
[edit] Births
- March 24 - Jules Verne (d. 1905), science fiction author.
- October 31 - Joseph Swan (d. 1914), physicist.
[edit] Deaths
- March 17 - James Edward Smith (b. 1759), English botanist.
- August 8 - Carl Peter Thunberg (b. 1743), Swedish botanist.
- December 22 - William Hyde Wollaston (b. 1766), chemist.fr:1828 en science
