1866 in science
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The year 1866 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Giovanni Schiaparelli realizes that meteor streams occur when the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet that has left debris along its path.
- William Huggins studied the emission spectrum of a nova and discovers that it is surrounded by a cloud of hydrogen.
[edit] Biology
- Gregor Mendel published his laws of inheritance.
- Ernst Haeckel challenged the plant/animal division of life, observing that single celled organisms, the protists, do not fit into either category.
- Frederick Smith first discovers Formica candida in the Bournemouth, England, describing it as Formica gagates.
[edit] Chemistry
- Dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel.
- Augustus von Hofmann proposes the now standard system of hydrocarbon nomenclature.
[edit] Medicine
- Max Schultze discovers two sorts of 'receptors' in the retina.
- Patrick Manson starts a school of tropical medicine in Hong Kong
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- September 25 - Thomas Hunt Morgan (d. 1945), biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- November 30 - Robert Broom (d. 1951), paleontologist
[edit] Deaths
- July 20 - Bernhard Riemann (b. 1826), mathematician.
- December 1 - George Everest (b. 1790), surveyor and geographer.
