1823 in science - Definition and Overview

The year 1823 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Astronomy

• Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers.

Paleontology

• Human bones are found with those of the woolly mammoth at Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, proving that the two had lived on earth at the same time.

Physics

• William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Pond

Births

• January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace (d. 1913), British naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin.
• February 3 - Spencer Fullerton Baird (d. 1887), ornithologist and ichthyologist.

Deaths

• January 26 - Edward Jenner (b. 1749), inventor of the vaccine.