1841 in science
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Mathematics
- Karl Weierstrass discovers but does not publish the Laurent expansion theorem
Awards
Births
- January 29 - Henry Morton Stanley (d. 1904), explorer, journalist.
- February 2 - François-Alphonse Forel (d. 1912), pioneer in the study of lakes.
- February 4 - Clément Ader (d. 1926), engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer.
- February 24 - Carl Gräbe, (d. 1927) chemist.
- March 6 - Alfred Cornu (d. 1902), physicist.
- August 25 - Emil Theodor Kocher (d. 1917), 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
- September 9 - Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (b. 1778), botanist.
- October 28 - Johann Arfvedson (b. 1792), chemist.