1841 in science

The year 1841 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Mathematics

*Karl Weierstrass discovers but does not publish the Laurent expansion theorem

Awards

* Copley Medal: Georg Ohm
* Wollaston Medal: Adolphe Theodore Brongniart

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
* November 3 - Eugen Warming (d. 1924), botanist and founder of ecology.

Deaths

* September 9 - A. P. de Candolle (b. 1778), botanist.
* October 28 - Johann Arfvedson (b. 1792), chemist.