1822 in science

The year 1822 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1821 in science, other events of 1822, 1823 in science and the list of years in science.

Geology

• Friedrich Mohs introduces his system of classifying minerals and his scale of mineral hardness
• Georges Cuvier established new standards and methods in stratigraphy and palaeontology
• Gideon Mantell discovers the first fossil of the iguanodon
• John Phillips and William Conybeare identify the Carboniferous Period
• Omalius d'Halloy identifies the Cretaceous Period. He also proposed the Jurassic System

Mathematics

• Charles Babbage begins construction of his difference machine, a device for calculating logarithms and trigonometric functions

Awards

• Copley Medal: William Buckland

Births

• January 2 - Rudolf Clausius, physicist († 1888)
• January 6 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist († 1890)
• February 16 - Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist († 1911)
• July 22 - Gregor Mendel, geneticist († 1884)
• December 27 - Louis Pasteur, biologist († 1895)

Deaths

• August 25 - William Herschel, astronomer (* 1738)
• November 6 - Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist (* 1748)