1831 in science

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The year 1831 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Chemistry 3 Exploration 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

Astronomy

• Heinrich Schwabe makes the first detailed drawing of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter

Chemistry

• A. A. Bussy publishes his Mémoire sur le Radical métallique de la Magnésie describing his method of isolating magnesium

Exploration

• June 1 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
• December 27 - Charles Darwin starts his voyage on HMS Beagle

Awards

• Copley Medal: George Biddell Airy
• Wollaston Medal: William Smith

Births

• January 26 - Anton de Bary (d. 1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist.
• February 28 - Edward James Stone (d. 1897), astronomer.
• March 3 - George Pullman (d. 1897), inventor.
• May 16 - David E. Hughes (d. 1900), inventor.
• June 13 - James Clerk Maxwell (d. 1879), mathematician.
• August 20 - Eduard Suess (d. 1914), geologist.
• October 6 - Richard Dedekind (d. 1916), mathematician.
• October 29 - Othniel Charles Marsh (d. 1899), paleontologist.

Deaths

• June 27 - Sophie Germain (b. 1776), mathematician.

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