Editing 1852 in science (section)

==Deaths==
[[File:Ada Lovelace in 1852.jpg|thumb|[[Ada Lovelace]] shortly before her death in 1852]]
* January 1 – [[John George Children]] (born [[1777 in science|1777]]), English chemist, [[mineralogist]] and [[entomologist]].
* January 6 – [[Louis Braille]] (born [[1809 in science|1809]]), French [[inventor]].
* January 13 - [[Jean-Nicolas Gannal]] (born [[1791 in science|1791]]), French [[pharmacist]], chemist, and inventor.
* August 15 – [[Johan Gadolin]] (born [[1760 in science|1760]]), [[Finns|Finnish]] [[chemist]].
* August 24 – [[Sarah Guppy]] (born [[1770 in science|1770]]), English inventor.
* September 4 – [[William MacGillivray]] (born [[1796 in science|1796]]), [[Scottish people|Scottish]] naturalist and ornithologist.
* September 8 – [[Anna Maria Walker]] (born [[1778 in science|1778]]), Scottish botanist. 
* October 9 – [[Thomas Frederick Colby]] (born [[1784 in science|1784]]), English [[cartographer]].
* November 10 – [[Gideon Mantell]] (born [[1790 in science|1790]]), English [[paleontologist]].
* November 27 – [[Ada Lovelace|Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace]] (born [[1815 in science|1815]]), English computing pioneer.