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The year 1827 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

CHEMISTRY

Aluminium discovered by Friedrich Woehler

William Prout classifies the components of food into the three main divisions of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

AWARDS

; Henry Foster

BIRTHS

January 7 - Sir Sandford Fleming (d. 1915 ), Canadian Engineer and Surveyor known as the "father of Time Zone s"

April 5 - Joseph Lister (d. 1912 ), British Inventor of Antiseptic .

November 30 - George Jackson Mivart (d. 1900 ), English Biologist .

DEATHS

March 5

--- Pierre-Simon Laplace (b. 1749 ), Mathematician .

--- Alessandro Volta (b. 1745 ), Physicist .