1752 In Science

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Pringle

Electricity

• Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment determined that lightning was an electrical phenomenon.

Births

• May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physiologist and anthropologist (died 1840)
• July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
• September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)

Deaths

• February 9 - Frederik Hasselquist, Swedish traveller and naturalist (born 1722)
• April 10 - William Cheselden, surgeon (born 1688)

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