1841 in science
The year 1841 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Biology
Chemistry
Exploration
Geology
Human sciences
Mathematics
Technology
Awards
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 4 - W. H. Hudson (d. 1922), naturalist.
- August 25 - Emil Theodor Kocher (d. 1917), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- October 26 - Theodor von Oppolzer (d. 1886), astronomer.
- November 3 - Eugen Warming (d. 1924), botanist and founder of ecology.
Deaths
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