- 1791 in science
The year 1791 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.Physics
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Pierre Prévost shows that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are.Awards
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Copley Medal :James Rennell ;Jean-André Deluc Births
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April 9 -George Peacock , English mathematician (died 1858)
*April 27 -Samuel F. B. Morse , inventor (died 1872)
*July 13 - Allan Cunningham, English botanist and explorer (died 1839)
*September 22 -Michael Faraday , chemist and physicist (died 1867)
*September 23 -Johann Franz Encke , astronomer (died 1865)
*December 26 -Charles Babbage , English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (died 1871)Deaths
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