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List of years in science
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Table
)
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1771
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1772
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1773
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1774
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1775
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1776
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1777
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1778
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1779
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1780
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1781
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1782
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1783
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1784
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1785
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1786
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1787
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1788
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1789
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1790
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1791
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1778
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1779
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1780
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1781
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1782
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1783
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1784
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1750s
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1760s
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1770s
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1780s
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1790s
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1800s
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1810s
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17th century
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18th century
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19th century
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The year
1781 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Contents
1
Astronomy
2
Biology
3
Chemistry
4
Awards
5
Births
6
Deaths
Astronomy
William Herschel
discovers
Uranus
.
Charles Messier
publishes final catalogue of
Messier objects
.
March 20
-
Pierre Méchain
discovers
dwarf galaxy
NGC 5195
.
Biology
Felix Fontana
uses a
microscope
to describe the
axon
of a
brain cell
.
Chemistry
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
ascertains that a new
acid
could be made from tungstenite, leading to the discovery of
tungsten
in
1783
.
Awards
Copley Medal
:
William Herschel
Births
January 30
-
Adelbert von Chamisso
,
poet
,
botanist
(died
1838
)
February 17
-
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec
,
French
physician
, inventor of the
stethoscope
(died
1826
)
June 9
-
George Stephenson
,
locomotive
engineer
(died
1848
)
June 21
-
Simeon Poisson
,
mathematician
(died
1840
)
July 6
-
Thomas Stamford Raffles
, founder of the
Zoological Society of London
(died 1826)
October 5
-
Bernhard Bolzano
,
mathematician
(died 1848)
December 11
-
David Brewster
,
Scottish
physicist
(died
1868
)
Deaths
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