1833 in science
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The year 1833 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Biology
- Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first enzyme to be discovered)
- Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex"
Chemistry
- Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law
Physics
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber develops an electromagnetic telegraph
Awards
- Copley Medal: Not awarded
Births
- 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
- January 10 - Adrien-Marie Legendre (b. 1752), mathematician.
- February 6 - Pierre André Latreille (b. 1762),zoologist.
- February 14 - Gottlieb Sigismund Kirchhoff (b. 1764), chemist.
- April 22 - Richard Trevithick (b. 1771), engineer and inventor.
- July 5 - Nicéphore Niépce (b. 1765), inventor.
- October 31 - Johann Friedrich Meckel (b. 1781), anatomist.