The year 1844 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- July 27 – Death of English chemist and physicist John Dalton in Manchester where his body lies in honour in the Town Hall and more than 40,000 people file past his coffin.
- February 1 – G. Stanley Hall (died 1924), American psychologist.
- February 7 – Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (died 1873), Russian naturalist.
- February 20 – Ludwig Boltzmann (died 1906), Austrian physicist famous for the invention of statistical mechanics.
- March 25 – Adolf Engler (died 1930), German botanist.
- June 10 – Carl Hagenbeck (died 1913), German zoologist.
- July 1 – H. Newell Martin (died 1896), British physiologist.
- August 6 – James Henry Greathead (died 1896), South African-born English civil engineer.
- August 13 – Friedrich Miescher (died 1895), Swiss biochemist.
- August 22 – George W. DeLong (died 1881), American Arctic explorer.
- September 11 – Henry Alleyne Nicholson (died 1899), English paleontologist and zoologist.
- October 3 – Patrick Manson (died 1922), Scottish parasitologist, the "father of tropical medicine" .
- October 28 – Mary Katharine Brandegee née Layne (died 1920), American botanist.
- November 25 – Karl Benz (died 1929), German automotive engineer.
- Varvara Rudneva (d. 1899), Russian physician.
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