1776 in science
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The year 1776 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Exploration
- James Cook begins his third voyage of exploration in the Pacific.
[edit] Geology
- James Keir suggests that some rocks, such as those at the Giant's Causeway, might have been formed by the crystallisation of molten lava.
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: James Cook
[edit] Births
- February 4 - Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, German naturalist (died 1837)
- February 14 - Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, German botanist (died 1858)
- April 1 - Sophie Germain, mathematician (died 1831)
- August 2 - Friedrich Strohmeyer, chemist, discoverer of cadmium (died 1835)
- August 6 - Amedeo Avogadro, chemist (died 1856)
[edit] Deaths
- June 13 - William Battie, English psychiatrist (born 1703 or 1704)
- June 20 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (born 1704)
- November 17 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (born 1710)
