1787 in science

The year 1787 in science and technology

See also: 1786 in science, other events of 1787, 1788 in science, list of years in science.

Astronomy

• January 11 – William Herschel discovers Titania, the first moon of Uranus found.

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Hunter

Births

• March 6 – Joseph von Fraunhofer (d. 1826), physicist.
• March 16 – Georg Ohm (d. 1854), physicist.
• June 7 – William Conybeare (d. 1857), geologist.
• June 27 – Thomas Say (d. 1834), naturalist.

Deaths

• February 13 – Rudjer Boscovich, physicist, mathematician and astronomer (born 1711)