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The year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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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
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)