1796 in science

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The year 1796 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

See also: 1795 in science, other events of 1796, 1797 in science and the list of years in science.

Contents

1 Medicine 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References

Medicine

• May 14 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination^{[1] (http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/1796_in_science#fn_smallpox)}

Awards

• Copley Medal: George Atwood

Births

• February 22 - Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and astronomer (died 1874)
• June 1 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, mathematician (died 1832)
• Henry De la Beche, geologist (died 1855)
• August 21 James Lick in Pennsylvania Philanthropist who endowed the Lick observatory

Deaths

References

1. ⇧ Reference for year: Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). Immunotherapy: past, present and future (http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-269.html&filetype=pdf). Nature Medicine 9, 269-277.

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