See also: 1880 in science, other events of 1881, 1882 in science, list of years in science
Medicine Louis Pasteur discovers a vaccine for anthrax Awards Copley Medal: Karl Adolph Wurtz Wollaston Medal for Geology: Peter Martin Duncan Births August 6 - Alexander Fleming (+1957), scientist. Deaths May 26 - Jokob Bernays, philologist August 19 - Spencer Fullerton Baird, ornithologist and ichthyologist (* 1823) John Gould, zoologist (* 1804) Matthias Schleiden, biologist (* 1804)
