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The year 1836 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

1 Astronomy

• May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads.

2 Biology

• October 2 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS BeagleFor other RN ships of this name, see HMS Beagle (disambiguation). HMS Beagle was a British Royal Navy ship, made famous for the second voyage she made with Charles Darwin aboard. On May 11, 1820, Beagle was launched as a 90 ft (27 m), 10 gun brig from the after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
• Theodor SchwannTheodor Schwann ( December 7, 1810 January 11, 1882) was a German physiologist, histologist and cytologist. Schwann was born in Neuss, Germany and studied medicine in Berlin under Johannes Peter Muller. There, in 1836, he discovered and prepared the first discovers pepsinPepsin is a protease, a digestive enzyme that degrades food proteins in the stomach; the other important digestive enzymes are trypsin and chymotrypsin. It was the first animal enzyme to be discovered, by Theodor Schwann in 1836. Pepsin is expressed as a in extracts from the stomachIn anatomy, the stomach is an organ in the alimentary canal used to digest food. Generally, the stomach's primary function is not the adsorption of nutrients from digested food; this task is usually performed by the intestine. Latin names for the stomach lining; first isolation of an animal enzymeAn enzyme is a protein, or protein complex, that catalyzes a chemical reaction. Like any catalyst, enzymes work by lowering the activation energy of a reaction, thus allowing the reaction to proceed to its steady state or completion much faster than it ot.

3 Chemistry

• FrenchThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. chemistA chemist is a scientist who specializes in chemistry. The word derives from the older term alchemist. Also, in British English, the term is used for a pharmacist or a pharmacist's shop. See also: List of chemists, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Biography. Auguste Laurent discovers o- phthalic acid (1,2-benzenecarboxylic acid) by oxidizing naphthalene tetrachloride.
• The chemical compound acetylene, also called ethyne, was discovered by Edmund Davy .