1796 in science
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The year 1796 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Medicine
- May 14 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination[1]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 10 - Henry De la Beche, geologist (died 1855)
- February 22 - Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and astronomer (died 1874)
- June 1 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, mathematician (died 1832)
- August 21 - James Lick, philanthropist who endowed the Lick Observatory (died 1876)
[edit] Deaths
- May 1 - Alexandre Guy Pingré, French astronomer and naval geographer (born 1711.
- December 11 - Johann Daniel Titius, German astronomer (born 1729)
[edit] References
- ^ Reference for year: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future" (PDF). Nature Medicine 9: 269–277.
