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1800 in science

The year 1800 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1799 in science, other events of 1800, 1801 in science and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Awards 2 Births 3 Deaths

Awards

• Copley Medal: Edward Howard

Births

• February 11 - William Fox Talbot, mathematician, physicist and chemist (died 1877)
• July 31 - Friedrich Woehler, chemist (died 1882)
• December 29 - Charles Goodyear, inventor of the vulcanization process (died 1860)

Deaths

• January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (born 1716)
• March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist (born 1727)

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