The year 1876 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents

1 Medicine 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

Medicine

• Patrick Manson begins studying filariasis infection in humans

Awards

• Copley Medal: Claude Bernard
• Wollaston Medal: Thomas Henry Huxley

Births

• April 22 - Robert Barany (d. 1936), Nobel Prize winner in medicine.

Deaths

• November 26 - Karl Ernst von Baer (b. 1792), naturalist.