Editing 1837 in science (section)

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