See also: 1780 in science, other events of 1781, 1782 in science and the list of years in science.
Astronomy William Herschel discovers Uranus Charles Messier publishes final catalogue of Messier objects Biology Felix Fontana uses a microscope to describe the axon of a brain cell Chemistry Carl Wilhelm Scheele ascertains that a new acid could be made from tungstenite, leading to the discovery of tungsten in 1783 Awards Copley Medal: William Herschel Births January 30 - Adelbert von Chamisso, poet, botanist (died 1838) February 17 - Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician, inventor of the stethoscope (died 1826) June 9 - George Stephenson, locomotive engineer (died 1848) June 21 - Simeon Poisson, mathematician (died 1840) July 6 - Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of the Zoological Society of London (died 1826) October 5 - Bernhard Bolzano, mathematician (died 1848) December 11 - David Brewster, Scottish physicist (died 1868) Deaths
