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The year '''1817 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events, listed below.

==Biology==
* [[Georges Cuvier]] publishes ''Le Règne Animal''.

==Chemistry==
* Discovery of [[cadmium]] by [[Friedrich Stromeyer]].
* Discovery of [[lithium]] by [[Johann Arfvedson]].
* Discovery of [[selenium]] by [[Jöns Jakob Berzelius]].
* [[Pierre-Joseph Pelletier]] and [[Joseph Bienaimé Caventou]] isolate [[chlorophyll]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Delépine|first=Marcel|title=Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Caventou|journal=[[Journal of Chemical Education]]|volume=28|issue=9|page=454|issn=0021-9584|doi=10.1021/ed028p454|date=September 1951|bibcode=1951JChEd..28..454D}}</ref> and [[emetine]].
* [[Leopold Gmelin]] begins publication of his ''Handbuch der theoretischen Chemie''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Leopold Gmelin|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2219.html|work=[[Who Named It?|Whonamedit?]]|accessdate=2011-04-07}}</ref>

==Medicine==
* [[First cholera pandemic (1817–24)]] originates in [[Bengal]], reaching [[Calcutta]] by September.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hays|first=J. N.|title=Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History|year=2005|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|url=https://archive.org/details/epidemicspandemi0000hays|url-access=registration|isbn=978-1-85109-658-9}}</ref>
* [[James Parkinson]] publishes ''[http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Gallica&O=NUMM-98765 An Essay on the Shaking Palsy]'', describing "paralysis agitans", the condition which will become known as [[Parkinson's disease]].

==Technology==
* March – [[Ackermann steering geometry]] invented by [[Georg Lankensperger]].
* June 12 – German inventor [[Karl Drais]] drives his [[dandy horse]] ("Draisine" or ''Laufmaschine''), the earliest form of [[bicycle]], in [[Mannheim]].
* July 10 – [[David Brewster]] [[patent]]s the [[kaleidoscope]].<ref>British patent no. 4136. {{cite web|url=http://www.brewstersociety.com/brewster_patent.pdf |title=Brewster Patent |accessdate=2011-05-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721020838/http://www.brewstersociety.com/brewster_patent.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-21 }}</ref>

==Institutions==
* October 1 – [[Philomaths]] established secretly by [[Polish people|Poles]] at the [[Imperial University of Vilnius]].

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: [[Henry Kater]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=22 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==Births==
* January 29 – [[William Ferrel]] (died [[1891 in science|1891]]), [[Americans|American]] [[meteorologist]].
* February 15 – [[Robert Angus Smith]] (died [[1884 in science|1884]]), Scottish-born atmospheric chemist.
* April 8 – [[Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard]] (died [[1894 in science|1894]]), [[Mauritius|Mauritian]]-born [[physiologist]] and [[neurologist]].
* May 31 – [[Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher]] (died [[1860 in science|1860]]), French geologist.
* June 30 – [[Joseph Dalton Hooker]] (died [[1911 in science|1911]]), [[English people|English]] [[botanist]].
* July 5 – [[Carl Vogt]] (died [[1895 in science|1895]]), [[Germany|German]] scientist who publishes notable works in [[zoology]], [[geology]] and [[physiology]].
* July 15 – [[Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet|John Fowler]] (died [[1898 in science|1898]]), English [[civil engineer]].
* September 10 – [[Richard Spruce]] (died [[1893 in science|1893]]), English [[botanist]].
* October 10 – [[C. H. D. Buys Ballot]] (died [[1890 in science|1890]]), Dutch meteorologist.
* October 17 – [[Alfred Des Cloizeaux]] (died [[1897 in science|1897]]), French [[mineralogist]].
* November 26 – [[Charles-Adolphe Wurtz]] (died [[1884 in science|1884]]), Alsatian French [[chemist]].
* December 13 – [[Arthur Hill Hassall]] (died [[1894 in science|1894]]), English physician, microbiologist and chemical analyst.
* December 14 – [[Sophia Wilkens]] (died [[1889 in science|1889]]), Swedish pioneer in the education of students with intellectual disability.

==Deaths==
* January 1 – [[Martin Heinrich Klaproth]] (born [[1743 in science|1743]]), German [[chemist]].
* April 12 – [[Charles Messier]] (born [[1730 in science|1730]]), French [[astronomer]].
* May 12 – [[William Goforth (doctor)|William Goforth]] (born [[1766 in science|1766]]), American [[physician]] and [[paleontologist]].
* June 2 – [[Clotilde Tambroni]], Italian [[philologist]] and linguist (born [[1758 in science|1758]])
* June 11 – [[William Gregor]] (born [[1761 in science|1761]]), Cornish [[mineralogist]].
* July 28 – [[Abraham Gottlob Werner]] (born [[1749 in science|1749]]), German [[geologist]].
* August 7 – [[Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours]] (born [[1739 in science|1739]]), French-born American [[industrialist]].
* September 18 – [[William Charles Wells]] (born [[1757 in science|1757]]), American physician.
* November 7 – [[Jean-André Deluc]] (born [[1727 in science|1727]]), Swiss geologist.
* December 15 – Abate [[Giovanni Battista Guglielmini]] (born [[1763 in science|1763]]), Bolognese [[physicist]].

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