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The year 1833 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

BIOLOGY

Anselme Payen discovers Diastase (the first enzyme to be discovered)

Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex"

CHEMISTRY

Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law

PHYSICS

Wilhelm Eduard Weber develops an electromagnetic telegraph

AWARDS

Copley Medal : Not awarded

BIRTHS

March 25 - Fleeming Jenkin (d. 1885 ), Engineer .

May 5 - Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm Richthofen (d. 1905 ), Geographer .

June 29 - Peter Waage (d. 1900 ), Chemist .

October 9 - Eugene Langen (d. 1895 ), engineer

October 17 - Paul Bert (d. 1886 ), Physiologist .

October 21 - Alfred Nobel (d. 1896 ), Inventor .

December 2 - Daniel Von Recklinghausen (d. 1910 ), Pathologist .

DEATHS

January 10 - Adrien-Marie Legendre (b. 1752 ), Mathematician .

February 6 - Pierre André Latreille (b. 1762 ), Zoologist .

February 14 - Gottlieb Sigismund Kirchhoff (b. 1764 ), Chemist .

April 22 - Richard Trevithick (b. 1771 ), Engineer and Inventor .

July 5 - Nicéphore Niépce (b. 1765 ), inventor.

October 31 - Johann Friedrich Meckel (b. 1781 ), Anatomist .