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1828 in science

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The year 1828 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

Biology

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Chemistry

  • Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius produces a table of atomic weights and discovers thorium.
  • Urea becomes the first organic compound to be artificially synthesised, by Friedrich Wöhler, establishing that organic compounds could be produced from inorganic starting materials and potentially disproving a cornerstone of vitalism, the belief that life is not subject to the laws of science in the way inanimate objects are.[2][3]
  • The van Houten family of the Netherlands invent a press to remove about 50% of the cocoa butter from chocolate.[4]

Medicine

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Paleontology

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Physics

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Technology

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