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1820 in science

The year 1820 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

  • Royal Astronomical Society founded

    Biology

  • Christian Friedrich Nasse formulates Nasse's law: hemophilia occurs only in males and is passed on by unaffected females

    Computing

  • Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar makes his "Arithmometer", the first mass-produced calculator

    Exploration

  • January 27 – Antarctica is sighted for the first time by British navy captain Edward Bransfield

    Physics

  • Hans Christian Ørsted discovers relationship between electricity and magnetism
  • Laws of electrodynamics established by André-Marie Ampère

    Awards

  • Copley Medal - Hans Christian Ørsted

    Births

  • 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

  • June 19 – Joseph Banks (b. 1743), naturalist.


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