Overview of the events of 1786 in science
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The year 1786 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Biology
Linguistics
Mathematics
Technology
Awards
Births
- January 5 – Thomas Nuttall, English naturalist (died 1859)
- February 26 – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist and astronomer (died 1853)
- February 28 – Christian Ramsay, Scottish botanist (died 1839)
- April 16 – Thomas Sewall, American anatomist (died 1845)
- April 28 – Elizabeth Andrew Warren, Cornish botanist and marine algolologist (died 1864)
- July 24 – Joseph Nicollet, French geographer, explorer, mathematician and astronomer (died 1843)
- November 3 – Ernst Friedrich Germar, German entomologist (died 1853)
- December 6 – Johann Georg Bodmer, Swiss mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1864)
Deaths
- February 25 – Thomas Wright, English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect, garden designer, antiquary and genealogist (born 1711)
- May 2 – Petronella Johanna de Timmerman, Dutch scientist (born 1723)
- May 4 – Leonardo Ximenes, Tuscan polymath (born 1716)
- May 15 – Eva Ekeblad, agronomist, first woman in the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (born 1724)
- May 21 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemist (born 1742)
- October 16 – Alexander Wilson, Scottish polymath (born 1714)
- November 10 – John Hope, Scottish physician and botanist (born 1725)
References
- ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.