1851 in science

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The year 1851 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: Richard Owen
• Wollaston Medal for geology: Adam Sedgwick

[edit] Births

• January 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn (d. 1922), astronomer.
• July 8 - Arthur Evans (d. 1941), archaeologist.
• August 3 - George FitzGerald (d. 1901), mathematician.

[edit] Deaths

• January 27 - John James Audubon (b. 1785), naturalist and illustrator.
• February 18 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (b. 1804), mathematician.
• March 9 - Hans Christian Ørsted (b. 1777), physicist.