See also: 1870 in science, other events of 1871, 1872 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: Julius Robert von Mayer Wollaston Medal for Geology: Andrew Ramsay Births Deaths May 11 - John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer (* 1792) October 18 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (* 1791)
