1828 in science

See also: 1827 in science, other events of 1828, 1829 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Biology 2 Chemistry 3 Mathematics 4 Palaeontology 5 Physics 6 Awards 7 Births 8 Deaths

Biology

• Karl Ernst von Baer lays the foundations of the science of comparative embryology with his book Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere
• Friedrich Woehler synthesizes urea; first synthesis of an organic compound

• Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovers thorium

• George Green proves Green's theorem

• Adolphe Brongniart publishes Prodrome d'une histoire des Végétaux Fossils, a study of fossil plants.
• Mary Anning discovers Britain's first pterosaur fossil at Lyme Regis

• William Rowan Hamilton publishes Theory of Systems of Rays

• Copley Medal: not awarded

• Joseph Swan, physicist († 1914)

• December 22 - William Hyde Wollaston, chemist (* 1766)