1866 in science

Table of contents

1 Astronomy 2 Biology 3 Chemistry 4 Medicine 5 Births 6 Deaths

Astronomy

• Giovanni Schiaparelli realizee that meteor streams occur when the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet that has left debris along its path.
• William Huggins studied the spectrum of a nova and discovers that it is surrounded by a cloud of hydrogen.

• Gregor Mendel published his laws of inheritance.
• Ernst Haeckel challanged the plant/animal division of life, observing that single celled organisms, the protists, do not fit into either category.
• Frederick Smith first discovers Formica candida in the Bournemouth, England, describing it as Formica gagates.

• Dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel.
• Augustus von Hofmann proposed the now standard system of hydrocarbon nomenclature.

• Max Schultze discovers two sorts of 'receptors' in the retina.

• Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist, Nobellaureate in Physiology or Medicine
• Robert Broom, paleontologist.

• Bernhard Riemann, mathematician