1787 in science - Definition

The year 1787 in science and technology

See also: 1786 in science, other events of 1787, 1788 in science, list of years in science.

Astronomy

• January 11 - William Herschel discovers Titania, the first moon of Uranus found.

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Hunter

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.

Deaths

• February 13 - Rudjer Boscovich, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1711)