See also: 1735 in science, other events of 1736, 1737 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: John Theophilus Desaguliers Births January 19 - James Watt, mathematician and engineer (died 1819) June 14 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (died 1806) Deaths September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist and engineer (born 1686)
