1778 in science

The year 1778 in science and technology

See also: 1777 in science, other events of 1778, 1779 in science, list of years in science.

Exploration

Awards

• Copley Medal: Charles Hutton

Births

• February 4 - Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, botanist († 1841)
• December 6 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist and physicist († 1850)
• December 17 - Humphry Davy, chemist († 1829)

Deaths

• January 10 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, first to develop standard nomenclature for naming species (* 1707)