1841 in science - Definition

The year 1841 in science and technology

Mathematics

• Karl Weierstrass discovers but does not publish the Laurent expansion theorem

Awards

• Copley Medal: Georg Ohm
• Wollaston Medal: Adolphe Theodore Brongniart

Births

• January 29 - Henry Morton Stanley (d. 1904), explorer, journalist.
• February 2 - François-Alphonse Forel (d. 1912), pioneer in the study of lakes.
• February 4 - Clément Ader (d. 1926), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
• February 24 - Carl Gräbe, (d. 1927) chemist.
• March 6 - Alfred Cornu (d. 1902), physicist.
• August 25 - Emil Theodor Kocher (d. 1917), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Deaths

• September 9 - Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (b. 1778), botanist.
• October 28 - Johann Arfvedson (b. 1792), chemist.