Editing 1857 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 20 – [[Vladimir Bekhterev]] (died [[1927 in science|1927]]), Russian [[psychologist]].
* February 3 – [[Wilhelm Johannsen]] (died 1927), Danish [[plant physiologist]] and [[geneticist]].
* February 22 – [[Heinrich Hertz]] (died [[1894 in science|1894]]), German physicist
* March 27 – [[Karl Pearson|Carl Pearson]] (died [[1936 in science|1936]]), English [[mathematician]].
* April 30 – [[Eugen Bleuler]] (died [[1939 in science|1939]]), Swiss [[psychiatrist]].
* May 13 – [[Ronald Ross]] (died [[1932 in science|1932]]), Indian-born British [[physiologist]], winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] 1902.
* May 15 – [[Williamina Fleming]] (died [[1911 in science|1911]]), Scottish-born American astronomer.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Deborah|last1=Todd|first2=Joseph|last2=Angelo|title=A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy|location=New York|publisher=Facts of File|year=2003|page=117|isbn=978-0-81604-639-3}}</ref>
* June 28 – [[Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet|Robert Jones]] (died [[1933 in science|1933]]), Welsh [[orthopaedic surgeon]].
* July 11 – [[Joseph Larmor]] (died [[1942 in science|1942]]), Irish physicist.
* August 8 – [[Henry Fairfield Osborn]] (died [[1935 in science|1935]]), American [[paleontologist]].
* October 2 – [[John Macintyre]] (died [[1928 in science|1928]]), Scottish [[laryngologist]] and pioneer [[radiographer]].
* November 1 – [[John Joly]] (died [[1933 in science|1933]]), Anglo-Irish [[physicist]].
* November 27 – [[Charles Scott Sherrington|Charles Sherrington]] (died [[1952 in science|1952]]), English [[neurophysiologist]] and [[bacteriologist]], winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932.
* November 29 – [[Theodor Escherich]] (died [[1911 in science|1911]]), German-born pediatric bacteriologist.