1837 in Science - Births

Births

• January 16 – Ellen Russell Emerson (died 1907), ethnologist.
• January 17 – François Lenormant (died 1883), assyriologist and numismatist.
• January 19 – William Williams Keen (died 1932), physician.
• January 27 – Eduard von Hofmann (died 1897), forensic pathologist.
• March 7 – Henry Draper (died 1882), doctor, astronomer.
• March 23 – Richard Anthony Proctor (died 1888), astronomer.
• April 3 – John Burroughs (died 1921), naturalist.
• May 26 – Washington Roebling (died 1926), civil engineer.
• June 20 – Paul Bachmann (died 1920), mathematician.
• September 8 – Raphael Pumpelly (died 1923), geologist.
• October 23 – Moritz Kaposi (died 1902), dermatologist.
• November 4 – James Douglas (died 1918), metallurgist.
• November 14 – Lucas Barrett (died 1862), naturalist.
• November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals (died 1923), physicist.
• November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt (died 1920), inventor.