1823 in science

The year 1823 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

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

Astronomy

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

Paleontology

• 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.

Physics

• William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Pond

Births

• January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin (died 1913)
• February 3 - Spencer Fullerton Baird, ornithologist and ichthyologist (died 1887)

Deaths

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