1828 in science

The year 1828 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Biology

• Karl Ernst von Baer lays the foundations of the science of comparative embryology with his book Über Entwickelungsgeschichte der Thiere
• Friedrich Woehler synthesizes urea; first synthesis of an organic compound

Chemistry

• Jöns Jakob Berzelius discovers thorium

Mathematics

• George Green proves Green's theorem

Palaeontology

• Adolphe Theodore Brongniart publishes Prodrome d'une histoire des Végétaux Fossils, a study of fossil plants.
• Mary Anning discovers Britain's first pterosaur fossil at Lyme Regis

Physics

• William Rowan Hamilton publishes Theory of Systems of Rays

Awards

• Copley Medal: not awarded

Births

• March 24 – Jules Verne (d. 1905), science fiction author.
• October 31 – Joseph Swan (d. 1914), physicist.

Deaths

• March 17 – James Edward Smith (b. 1759), English botanist.
• August 8 – Carl Peter Thunberg (b. 1743), Swedish botanist.
• December 22 – William Hyde Wollaston (b. 1766), chemist.