- 1823 in science
The year 1823 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy
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Olbers' paradox is described by the Germanastronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers .Paleontology
* Human bones are found with those of the woolly
mammoth at Paviland Cave on theGower peninsula , proving that the two had lived on earth at the same time.Physics
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William Sturgeon invents theelectromagnet Awards
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Copley Medal :John Pond Births
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January 8 -Alfred Russel Wallace (d. 1913), British naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time asCharles Darwin .
*February 3 -Spencer Fullerton Baird (d. 1887),ornithologist andichthyologist .Deaths
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January 26 -Edward Jenner (b. 1749), inventor of thevaccine .
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