1756 in science

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The year 1756 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Chemistry
2 Technology
3 Awards
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References

Chemistry

Joseph Black describes how carbonates become more alkaline when they lose carbon dioxide, whereas the taking-up of carbon dioxide reconverts them.
Mikhail Lomonosov disproves the phlogiston theory of combustion^[1] and pioneers the study of oxidation by converting tin to stannic oxide.^[2]

Technology

John Smeaton produces the first high-quality cement since Roman times for construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse (completed 1759), following burning down of the second in 1755.
Mayonnaise is invented by the French chef of the Duc de Richelieu.

Awards

Copley Medal: Not awarded

Births

June 4 - Jean-Antoine Chaptal, French chemist who named nitrogen in 1790 (died 1832)
September 21 - John Loudon McAdam, road-engineer (died 1836)
November 30 - Ernst Chladni, physicist (died 1827)
December 26 - Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacepede, naturalist (died 1825)

Deaths

February 22 - Pehr Löfling, Swedish botanist, pupil of Linnaeus (born 1729)
April 16 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (born 1677)

References

^ Menshutkin, Boris N. (1952). Russia's Lomonosov: Chemist Courtier, Physicist Poet. Princeton University Press. p. 120.
^ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1920). "Russia’s Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 23: 223.