1841 in science
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The year 1841 CE in science and technology

See also: 1840 in science, other events of 1841, 1842 in science and the list of years in science.

Mathematics

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

Awards

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

Births

• January 28 - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist († 1904)
• February 2 - François-Alphonse Forel, pioneer in the study of lakes († 1912)
• February 4 - Clément Ader, engineer and inventor, airplane pioneer († 1926)
• February 24 - Carl Gräbe, chemist († 1927)
• March 6 - Marie Cornu, physicist († 1902)
• August 25 - Emil Theodor Kocher, 1909 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine († 1917)

Deaths

• September 9 - Augustin Pyrame de Candolle , botanist (* 1778)
• October 28 - Johann Arfvedson, chemist (* 1792)

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