The year 1846 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents

1 Astronomy 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

Astronomy

• June 1 - Urbain Le Verrier predicts the existence and location of Neptune from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus
• August 31 - Urbain Le Verrier publishes full details of the predicted orbit and the mass of the new planet
• September 23 - Johann Galle discovers Neptune
• October 10 - William Lassell discovers Triton, Neptune's moon

Awards

• Copley Medal: Urbain Le Verrier
• Wollaston Medal: William Lonsdale

Births

• December 12 - Eugen Baumann (d. 1896), chemist.

Deaths

• March 17 - Friedrich Bessel (b. 1784), mathematician.