1841 in science

The year 1841 in science and technology

See also: 1840 in science, other events of 1841, 1842 in science and the list of years in science.

Mathematics

• Karl Weierstrass discovers but does not publish the Laurent expansion theorem

Awards

• Copley Medal: Georg Ohm
• Wollaston Medal: Adolphe Theodore Brongniart

Births

• January 28 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist (died 1904)
• February 2 - François-Alphonse Forel, pioneer in the study of lakes (died 1912)
• February 4 - Clément Ader, engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer (died 1926)
• February 24 - Carl Gräbe, chemist (died 1927)
• March 6 - Alfred Cornu, physicist (died 1902)
• August 25 - Emil Theodor Kocher, 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 1917)

Deaths

• September 9 - Augustin Pyrame de Candolle , botanist (born 1778)
• October 28 - Johann Arfvedson, chemist (born 1792)