The year 1832 in science and technology involved
some significant events, listed below.
== Biology ==
Dr. Thomas Bell begins publication of A Monograph
of the Testudinata, the first comprehensive
study of the world's turtles.
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire begins publication
of Histoire générale et particulière des
anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme
et les animaux, a key text on teratology.
== Chemistry ==
Pierre Jean Robiquet isolates the analgesic
codeine.
Friedrich Wöhler and Justus von Liebig discover
and explain functional groups and radicals
in relation to organic chemistry.
Pittacal was discovered by German chemist
Carl Ludwig Reichenbach.
== Exploration ==
April 21 – Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace
completes a four-year global circumnavigation.
== Mathematics ==
Évariste Galois presents a general condition
for the solvability of algebraic equations,
thereby essentially founding group theory
and Galois theory.
On May 29, the eve of a duel from which he
will die, he writes his "mathematical testament",
a letter to Auguste Chevalier.
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet proves Fermat's
last theorem for n = 14.
János Bolyai's system of non-Euclidean geometry
is first published.
== Medicine ==
February 12 – In England, a second cholera
pandemic begins to spread, starting from the
East End of London.
It is declared officially over in early May
but deaths continue.
It will claim at least 3000 victims.
In Liverpool, Kitty Wilkinson becomes the
"Saint of the Slums" by promoting hygiene.
July 19 – Anatomy Act in the United Kingdom
provides for licensing and inspection of anatomists,
and for unclaimed bodies from public institutions
to be available for their dissection.
Dr James Kay publishes The moral and physical
condition of the working-class employed in
the cotton manufacture in Manchester.
Thomas Hodgkin first describes abnormalities
in the lymph system later known as Hodgkin's
lymphoma.
== Oceanography ==
James Rennell's An Investigation of the Currents
of the Atlantic Ocean, and of those which
prevail between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic
is published posthumously by his daughter.
It will not be significantly superseded for
more than a century.
== Physics ==
Michael Faraday states his laws of electrolysis.
== Psychology ==
Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker
first publishes the optical illusion which
becomes known as the Necker Cube.
== Awards ==
Copley Medal: Michael Faraday; Siméon Poisson
== Births ==
June 17 – William Crookes (died 1919), English
chemist and physicist.
August 16 – Wilhelm Wundt (died 1920), German
physiologist and psychologist.
September 26 – Zsófia Torma (died 1899),
Hungarian archaeologist, anthropologist and
paleontologist.
October 4 – Thorborg Rappe (died 1902),
Swedish pioneer in the education of students
with Intellectual disability.
December 12 – Ludwig Sylow (died 1918),
Norwegian mathematician.
December 15 – Gustave Eiffel (died 1923),
French structural engineer.
== Deaths ==
May 13 – Georges Cuvier (born 1769), French
zoologist.
May 31 – Évariste Galois (born 1811), French
mathematician.
August 24 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
(born 1796), French mathematician
September 2 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach
(born 1754), Hungarian astronomer.
October 31 – Antonio Scarpa (born 1752),
Italian anatomist.
November 8 -Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French
astronomer, (born 1760
