1851 in science
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The year 1851 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Awards
- Copley Medal: Richard Owen
- Wollaston Medal for geology: Adam Sedgwick
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Births
- January 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn (d. 1922), astronomer.
- July 8 - Arthur Evans (d. 1941), archaeologist.
- August 3 - George FitzGerald (d. 1901), mathematician.
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Deaths
- January 27 - John James Audubon (b. 1785), naturalist and illustrator.
- February 18 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (b. 1804), mathematician.
- March 9 - Hans Christian Ørsted (b. 1777), physicist.sv:Vetenskapsåret 1851