1823 in science

See also: 1822 in science, other events of 1823, 1824 in science, list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy 2 Paleontology 3 Physics 4 Awards 5 Births 6 Deaths

Astronomy

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

• 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.

• William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet

• Copley Medal: John Pond

• January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin.
• February 3 - Spencer Fullerton Baird, ornithologist and ichthyologist († 1881)

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