1820 in science
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The year 1820 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Royal Astronomical Society is founded.
[edit] Biology
- Christian Friedrich Nasse formulates Nasse's law: hemophilia occurs only in males and is passed on by unaffected females.
[edit] Computing
- Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar makes his "Arithmometer", the first mass-produced calculator.
[edit] Exploration
- January 27 – Antarctica is sighted for the first time by British navy captain Edward Bransfield.
[edit] Physics
- Hans Christian Ørsted discovers relationship between electricity and magnetism.
- Laws of electrodynamics are established by André-Marie Ampère.
[edit] Awards
[edit] 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.
[edit] Deaths
- June 19 – Joseph Banks (b. 1743), naturalist.
