The year 1851 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Solar eclipse of July 28, 1851 : the first correctly exposed photograph of a solar eclipse, using the daguerreotype process.
January 19 – Jacobus Kapteyn (died 1922 ), Dutch astronomer .
February 15 – Spiru Haret (died 1912 ), Romanian mathematician , astronomer and politician.
March 16 – Martinus Beijerinck (died 1931 ), Dutch microbiologist and botanist .
April 12 – E. Walter Maunder (died 1928 ), English astronomer.
July 8 – Arthur Evans (died 1941 ), English archaeologist .
July 20 – Arnold Pick (died 1924 ), Jewish Czech neurologist .
August 3 – George FitzGerald (died 1901 ), Irish mathematician.
September 21 – Fanny Searls (died 1939 ), American doctor and botanist.[10]
September 23 – Ellen Hayes (died 1930 ), American mathematician and astronomer.
Tobin, William (2003). The Life and Science of Léon Foucault, the Man who Proved the Earth Rotates . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80855-3 . Schielicke, Reinhard; Wittmann, Axel D. (2005). "On the Berkowski daguerreotype (Königsberg, 1851 July 28): the first correctly-exposed photograph of the solar corona". Acta Historica Astronomiae . 25 : 128–147. Bibcode :2005AcHA...25..128S .