1787 in science
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The year 1787 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Astronomy
- January 11 - William Herschel discovers Titania, the first moon of Uranus found.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- March 6 - Joseph von Fraunhofer (d. 1826), physicist.
- March 16 - Georg Ohm (d. 1854), physicist.
- June 7 - William Conybeare (d. 1857), geologist.
- June 27 - Thomas Say (d. 1834), naturalist.
[edit] Deaths
- February 13 - Rudjer Boscovich, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1711)
