See also: 1748 in science, other events of 1749, 1750 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: John Harrison Births March 23 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician († 1827) May 17 - Edward Jenner, inventor of the vaccine († 1823) Deaths September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (born 1706)
