1791 In Science

Physics

• Pierre Prvost shows that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are

Awards

• Copley Medal: James Rennell; Jean-Andr Deluc

Births

• April 9 - George Peacock, English mathematician (died 1858)
• April 27 - Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor (died 1872)
• July 13 - Allan Cunningham, English botanist and explorer (died 1839)
• September 22 - Michael Faraday, chemist and physicist (died 1867)
• September 23 - Johann Franz Encke, astronomer (died 1865)
• December 26 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (died 1871)

Deaths

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