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The year 1823 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

ASTRONOMY

Olbers' Paradox is described by the German Astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus 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

BIRTHS

January 8 - Alfred Russel Wallace (d. 1913 ), British Naturalist who devised the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin .

February 3 - Spencer Fullerton Baird (d. 1887 ), Ornithologist and Ichthyologist .

DEATHS

January 26 - Edward Jenner (b. 1749 ), inventor of the Vaccine .