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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.
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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
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)
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