- 1749 in science
The year 1749 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.Awards
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Copley Medal :John Harrison Births
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March 23 -Pierre-Simon Laplace , mathematician (d. 1827)
*May 17 -Edward Jenner , inventor of thevaccine (d. 1823)
*Abraham Gottlob Werner ,geologist (d. 1817)Deaths
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September 10 -Emilie du Chatelet , French mathematician and physicist (born 1706)
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