1827 in science
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The year 1827 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Chemistry
- Aluminium discovered by Friedrich Woehler
- William Prout classifies the components of food into the three main divisions of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Sir Sandford Fleming (d. 1915), Canadian engineer and surveyor known as the "father of time zones"
- April 5 - Joseph Lister (d. 1912), British inventor of antiseptic.
- November 30 - George Jackson Mivart (d. 1900), English biologist.
[edit] Deaths
- March 5
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (b. 1749), mathematician.
- Alessandro Volta (b. 1745), physicist.
