1835 in science
The year 1835 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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August 5 - First sighting of the return of
Comet Halley by
Father Dumouchel, director of the
Collegio Romano at the
Vatican. It was next seen by
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve on August 21 at the
Dorpat Observatory.
John Herschel had been expected to find the comet first, as he was at the time in
South 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 its
perihelion November 16. It reappeared in January 1836, and Herschel was the last person to observe it in May.
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August 25 - The first article in a longer fake series on discoveries made by
John Herschel and a fictitious companion named Dr. Andrew Grant was published in the
New York Sun. This incident is now known as the
Great Moon Hoax.
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Vinyl chloride first produced by
Justus von Liebig and his student
Henri Victor Regnault*
Dirichlet proves
Dirichlet's theorem about prime numbers in arithmetical progressions
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William Rowan Hamilton states
Hamilton's canonical equations of motion*
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis examines motion on a spinning surface deduces the
Coriolis effect*
Samuel Colt invents the
revolver*
Samuel Morse develops the
Morse code*
Copley Medal:
William Snow Harris*
Wollaston Medal:
Gideon Mantell*
March 12 -
Simon Newcomb (d.
1909),
mathematician and
astronomer.
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March 14 -
Giovanni Schiaparelli (d.
1910),
Italian astronomer.
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March 24 -
Jožef Stefan (d.
1893),
physicist and
mathematician.
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March 29 -
Gustaf Zander (d.
1920),
physician.
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August 18 -
Friedrich Strohmeyer (b.
1776),
chemist.
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September 14 -
John Brinkley (b.
1763),
astronomer.
