See also: 1799 in science, other events of 1800, 1801 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: Edward Howard Births February 11 - William Fox Talbot, mathematician, physicist and chemist († 1877) July 31 - Friedrich Woehler, chemist († 1882) December 29 - Charles Goodyear, inventor of the vulcanization process († 1860) Deaths January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (* 1716) March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist (* 1727)
