1752 in science
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The year 1752 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Awards
[edit] Electricity
- Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment determined that lightning was an electrical phenomenon.
[edit] Births
- May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physiologist and anthropologist (died 1840)
- July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
- September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
[edit] Deaths
- January 4 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (born 1704)
- February 9 - Frederik Hasselquist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (born 1722)
- April 10 - William Cheselden, surgeon (born 1688)
