The year 1837 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- January 16 – Ellen Russell Emerson (died 1907), American ethnologist.
- January 17 – François Lenormant (died 1883), French assyriologist and numismatist.
- January 19 – William Williams Keen (died 1932), American physician.
- January 27 – Eduard von Hofmann (died 1897), Austrian forensic pathologist.
- March 7 – Henry Draper (died 1882), American physician and astronomer, pioneer of astrophotography.
- March 23 – Richard Anthony Proctor (died 1888), English astronomer.
- April 3 – John Burroughs (died 1921), American naturalist.
- April 27 – Paul Gordan (died 1912), German Jewish mathematician, "the king of invariant theory".
- May 26 – Washington Roebling (died 1926), American civil engineer.
- June 20 – Paul Bachmann (died 1920), German mathematician.
- July 21 – Johanna Hedén (died 1912), Swedish midwife and surgeon.
- September 8 – Raphael Pumpelly (died 1923), American geologist and explorer.
- October 23 – Moritz Kaposi (died 1902), Hungarian dermatologist.
- November 4 – James Douglas (died 1918), Canadian-born metallurgist.
- November 14 – Lucas Barrett (died 1862), Canadian-born British naturalist.
- November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals (died 1923), Dutch theoretical physicist.
- November 28 – John Wesley Hyatt (died 1920), American inventor and industrial chemist.
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