1815 in science

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The year 1815 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents

1 Geology
2 Medicine
3 Physics
4 Technology
5 Awards
6 Births
7 Deaths

Geology

April 5 - Volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbava. About 92,000 people die as a direct consequence of this disaster, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption sends so much volcanic ash into the atmosphere that weather patterns around the world are altered, causing the following year to be nicknamed the "Year Without A Summer."

Medicine

Cholesterol is discovered by French chemist Michel E. Chevreul, who analyzed it in human gall stones, but its causal relationship with atherosclerosis was unknown.

Physics

Experiments by French physicist Jean Baptist Biot (1774-1862) reveal polarimetry, in the polarization of light in liquids.
Atomic decay is discovered by Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius in gadolinite, a radioactive mineral damaged by alpha particles released in its own activity.

Technology

Dental floss is invented by Levi Spear Parmly.
The Davy lamp is invented by Humphry Davy.

Awards

Copley Medal: David Brewster

Births

October 31 - Karl Weierstraß, mathematician (d. 1897)

Deaths

Nicolas Desmarest, French naturalist (b. 1725)

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