See also: 1822 in science, other events of 1823, 1824 in science, list of years in science.
Astronomy Olbers' paradox is described by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. Paleontology Human bones are found with those of the woolly mammoth at Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, proving that the two had lived on earth at the same time. Physics William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet Awards Copley Medal: John Pond Births January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin. February 3 - Spencer Fullerton Baird, ornithologist and ichthyologist († 1881) Deaths January 26 - Edward Jenner, inventor of the vaccine (* 1749)