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Overview of the events of 1831 in science
The year 1831 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy [ edit ] Biology [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] A. A. Bussy publishes his Mémoire sur le Radical métallique de la Magnésie describing his method of isolating magnesium .The Kaliapparat , a laboratory device for the analysis of carbon in organic compounds, is invented by Justus von Liebig . Exploration [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] May 16 – Middlesex County Asylum for pauper lunatics opens at Hanwell near London under the humane superintendence of William Charles Ellis .
Dr C. Turner Thackrah publishes The Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, and of Civic States and Habits of Living, on Health and Longevity, with a particular reference to the trades and manufactures of Leeds, and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce disease and shorten the duration of life , a pioneering study of occupational and public health in a newly industrialised English city.[4] Paleontology [ edit ] Henry Witham publishes Observations on fossil vegetables, accompanied by representations of their internal structure, as seen through the microscope in Edinburgh .Technology [ edit ] Institutions [ edit ] January 20 – Edward Routh (died 1907 ), Canadian-born English mathematician .
January 26 – Heinrich Anton de Bary (died 1888 ), German surgeon , botanist , microbiologist and mycologist .
February 28 – Edward James Stone (died 1897 ), English astronomer .
March 3 – George Pullman (died 1897 ), American inventor .
May 16 – David E. Hughes (died 1900 ), British inventor.
June 13 – James Clerk Maxwell (died 1879 ), Scottish-born mathematician.
August 20 – Eduard Suess (died 1914 ), Austrian geologist .
October 6 – Richard Dedekind (died 1916 ), German mathematician.
October 15 – Isabella Bird (died 1904 ), English explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist.
October 21 – Hermann Hellriegel (died 1895 ), German agricultural chemist , discoverer of the mechanism by which leguminous plants assimilate the free nitrogen of the atmosphere.
October 29 – Othniel Charles Marsh (died 1899 ), American paleontologist . References [ edit ]
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