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The year '''1833 in [[science]]''' and [[technology]] involved some significant events, listed below.

==Astronomy==
* November 12–13 – A spectacular occurrence of the [[Leonid meteor shower]] is observed over [[Alabama]].

==Biology==
* May 3 – The [[Royal Entomological Society of London|Entomological Society of London]] is inaugurated.
* [[Katherine Sophia Kane]]'s ''The Irish Flora'' is published anonymously.

==Chemistry==
* [[Thomas Graham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]] proposes [[Graham's law]].

==Computer science==
* June 5 – [[Ada Lovelace]] is introduced to [[Charles Babbage]] by [[Mary Somerville]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Anthony|last=Hyman|author-link=R. Anthony Hyman|title=[[Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=1982|isbn=978-0-19-858170-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/charlesbabbagepi0000hyma/page/177 177]–8}}</ref>

==Geophysics==
* November 25 – A major 8.7 [[1833 Sumatra earthquake|earthquake]] strikes [[Sumatra]].

==Mathematics==
* ''probable date'' – [[Paul Gerwien]] proves the [[Bolyai–Gerwien theorem]] formulated by [[Farkas Bolyai]]: that any two simple [[polygon]]s of equal [[area]] are equidecomposable.

==Paleontology==
* [[Henry Witham]] publishes ''The Internal Structure of Fossil Vegetables found in the Carboniferous and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain'' in [[Edinburgh]].

==Physics==
* [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] and [[Wilhelm Eduard Weber]] develop an electromagnetic telegraph at [[Göttingen]].

==Physiology and medicine==
* [[William Beaumont]] publishes ''Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion''.
* [[Charles Bell]] publishes ''The Hand: its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design'', the fourth [[Natural theology#The Bridgewater Treatises|Bridgewater Treatise]]{{Broken anchor|date=2025-03-22|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Natural theology#The Bridgewater Treatises|reason= The anchor (The Bridgewater Treatises) [[Special:Diff/1109937969|has been deleted]].|diff_id=1109937969}}.
* [[Marshall Hall (physiologist)|Marshall Hall]] coins the term "reflex" for a muscular reaction.
* [[Jean Lobstein]] proposes use of the term ''[[arteriosclerosis]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Alain|last1=Tedgui|first2=Ziad|last2=Mallat |title=Cytokines in Atherosclerosis |url=http://physrev.physiology.org/content/86/2/515.full |journal=[[Physiological Reviews]] |publisher=American Physiological Society |year=2006 |volume=86 |issue=2 |pages=515–581 |doi=10.1152/physrev.00024.2005 |accessdate=2011-06-23 |pmid=16601268 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713133753/http://physrev.physiology.org/content/86/2/515.full |archivedate=2013-07-13|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Johannes Peter Müller]] begins publication of his major [[physiology]] textbook ''Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen''.
* [[Anselme Payen]] discovers [[diastase]] (the first [[enzyme]] identified).

==Technology==
* August 18 – The [[Canada|Canadian]] ship [[SS Royal William|SS ''Royal William'']] sets out from [[Pictou, Nova Scotia]] on a 25-day passage of the [[Atlantic Ocean]] largely under steam to [[Gravesend, Kent]], [[England]].
* [[Obed Hussey]] [[patent]]s a [[reaper]] in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Obed Hussey|encyclopedia=Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History|url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=175|date=2005-07-01|accessdate=2011-05-12| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622032502/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=175| archivedate=22 June 2011 | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap|editor=Greeno, Follett L.|year=1912|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19547/19547-h/19547-h.htm|accessdate=2011-05-12| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119041803/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19547/19547-h/19547-h.htm |archivedate=2013-01-19| url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Cornish people|Cornish]] engineer [[Adrian Stephens (inventor)|Adrian Stephens]] invents the [[steam whistle]] as a warning device at [[Dowlais Ironworks]] in [[Wales]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trevor.jones4.btinternet.co.uk/Heroes/AdrianStephens.html |title=Adrian Stephens |accessdate=2012-06-22 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012000850/http://www.trevor.jones4.btinternet.co.uk/Heroes/AdrianStephens.html |archivedate=2012-10-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Charles E.|last=Lee|title=Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle|journal=Transactions of the [[Newcomen Society]]|volume=27|year=1949|pages=163–73|doi=10.1179/tns.1949.015 }}</ref>
* Publication by [[Charles Knight (publisher)|Charles Knight]] of ''[[Penny Cyclopaedia|The Penny Cyclopædia]] of the [[Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]]'' begins in [[London]].

==Awards==
* [[Copley Medal]]: Not awarded<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 19 – [[Alfred Clebsch]] (died [[1872 in science|1872]]), German mathematician.
* February 26 – [[Georges Pouchet]] (died [[1894 in science|1894]]), French comparative anatomist.
* March 14 – [[Lucy Hobbs Taylor]] (died [[1910 in science|1910]]), American dentist.
* March 23 – [[Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal]] (died [[1890 in science|1890]]), German [[psychiatrist]].
* March 25 – [[Fleeming Jenkin]] (died [[1885 in science|1885]]), English [[electrical engineer]].
* May 5 – [[Ferdinand von Richthofen]] (died [[1905 in science|1905]]), German [[geographer]].
* June 29 – [[Peter Waage]] (died [[1900 in science|1900]]), Norwegian [[chemist]].
* October 9 – [[Eugen Langen]] (died [[1895 in science|1895]]), German mechanical engineer.
* October 17 – [[Paul Bert]] (died [[1886 in science|1886]]), French [[physiologist]].
* October 21 – [[Alfred Nobel]] (died [[1896 in science|1896]]), Swedish [[inventor]].
* November 27 - [[Émile Vallin]] (died [[1924 in science|1924]]), French military physician.<ref>{{Cite web|language=fr |url=https://cths.fr/an/savant.php?id=4897# |title=Vallin Émile Arthur  |author1=L. Vaillard|author2= Agathe Floderer|author3=Alexandre Wauthier |website=cths.fr  |publisher= Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques |access-date=11 February 2021}}</ref>
* December 2 – [[Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen]] (died [[1910 in science|1910]]), German [[pathologist]].

==Deaths==
* January 10 – [[Adrien-Marie Legendre]] (born [[1752 in science|1752]]), [[mathematician]].
* February 6
** [[Fausto Elhuyar]] (born [[1755 in science|1755]]), [[chemist]]
** [[Pierre André Latreille]] (born [[1762 in science|1762]]), [[zoologist]].
* February 14 – [[Gottlieb Kirchhoff]] (born [[1764 in science|1764]]), chemist.
* April 22 – [[Richard Trevithick]] (born [[1771 in science|1771]]), [[engineer]] and [[inventor]].
* May 15 – [[Bewick Bridge]] (born [[1767 in science|1767]]), mathematician.
* July 5 – [[Nicéphore Niépce]] (born [[1765 in science|1765]]), inventor.
* October 31 – [[Johann Friedrich Meckel]] (born [[1781 in science|1781]]), [[anatomist]].

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