In 1781 there were various scientific and technological events, some of which are presented below.
| 1781 in science |
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| 1771 • 1772 • 1773 • 1774 • 1775 • 1776 • 1777 |
| 1778 • 1779 • 1780 • 1781 • 1782 • 1783 • 1784 |
| 1785 • 1786 • 1787 • 1788 • 1789 • 1790 • 1791 |
| Other events in 1781 |
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Events
- March 13 - Uranus planets discovered by astronomer William Herschel [1] .
- The N.V. Solovyov Hospital was founded.
- P. Gjelm was first obtained in the metallic state of molybdenum [2] .
- The Swedish chemist Karl Scheele , processing the scheelite mineral with nitric acid, received a yellow “heavy stone” ( tungsten trioxide), which led to tungsten two years later.
Born
- March 13 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel , an influential Prussian architect and urban planner who worked in the neo-Gothic and neo-classicist style.
- March 27 - Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov , Russian linguist , philologist - Slavic (of Baltic-German origin), academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (d. 1864 ).
- October 5 - Bernard Bolzano , Czech mathematician , philosopher and theologian , author of the arithmetic theory of the real number (d. 1848 ).
- December 23 - Khristofor Georgievich Bunge , Russian doctor (from a Lutheran family of immigrants from East Prussia ), founder of Russian veterinary medicine (d. 1861 ).
Died
- May 27 - Giovanni Beccaria , Italian physicist.
See also
► 1781 in science
Notes
- ↑ Kravchuk P.A. Records of nature. - L .: Scrabble, 1993 .-- 216 p. - 60,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7707-2044-1 .
- ↑ Emsley, John. Nature's Building Blocks: an A – Z guide to the elements . - Oxford University Press, 2001. - ISBN 978-0-19-850341-5 .