See also: 1776 in science, other events of 1777, 1778 in science and the list of years in science.
Awards Copley Medal: John Mudge Births April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician (died 1855) August 14 - Hans Christian Orsted, physicist (died 1851) Deaths September 22 - John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699) December 7 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708)
