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The year 1841 in science and technology

1 Mathematics

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

2 Awards

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

3 Births

• January 28 - Henry Morton Stanley (d. 1904), explorer, journalistA journalist is a person who practices journalism that is, who creates reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Origin and scope of the term In.
• February 2February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 332 days remaining (333 in leap years). Events 962 Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. 1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy. 1119 Callixtus II - François-Alphonse ForelFrancois-Alphonse Forel ( February 2, 1841 August 7, 1912) was a Swiss scientist who pioneered the study of lakes, and is thus considered the founder of limnology. Born in Morges on Lake Geneva, he worked as a professor of medicine at the University of La (d. 1912See also Other events of 1912 List of years in science. 1911 in science 1912 in science 1913 in science. The year 1912 in science and technology . Biology Horace Donisthorpe first discovers Anergates atratulus in the New Forest, England on July 23rd.), pioneer in the study of lakes.
• February 4February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 330 days remaining, (331 in leap years). Events 1454 In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederacy sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Mas - Clément AderClement Ader ( February 4 1841 March 5 1926) was a French engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. In his time an electrical and mechanical genius, the engineer Ader innovated in a number of domains. (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