In 1787, the following events occurred in the field of science.
| 1787 in science |
|---|
| 1777 • 1778 • 1779 • 1780 • 1781 • 1782 • 1783 |
| 1784 • 1785 • 1786 • 1787 • 1788 • 1789 • 1790 |
| 1791 • 1792 • 1793 • 1794 • 1795 • 1796 • 1797 |
| Other events in 1787 |
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Events
- January 11 - William Herschel opens the satellites of Uranus - Titania and Oberon .
- Jacques Charles experimentally detects the dependence of gas pressure on temperature at a constant volume .
- Antoine Lavoisier publishes Méthode de nomenclature chimique [1] .
Born
- January 24 - Christian Brem , German ornithologist (died in 1864 ).
- March 6 - Josef Fraunhofer , German physicist, famous optician (died in 1826 ).
- April 24 - Mathieu Orfila , French chemist and toxicologist of Catalan origin (died in 1853 ).
- November 18 - Louis Daguerre , French artist, chemist and inventor, one of the creators of photography (died in 1851 ).
Passed away
- February 13 - Ruzher Boshkovich , a Serbian-Croatian-Italian scholar (born in 1711 ).
- May 10 - William Watson , English physician and scientist (born in 1715 ).
See also
► 1787 in science
Notes
- ↑ Title page of "Méthode de nomenclature chimique" (Eng.) , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of South Carolina.