1823 in science
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The year 1823 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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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 (d. 1913), British naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin.
- February 3 - Spencer Fullerton Baird (d. 1887), ornithologist and ichthyologist.
Deaths
- January 26 - Edward Jenner (b. 1749), inventor of the vaccine.