1802 in science
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The year 1802 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the second asteroid Pallas.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 6 - Charles Wheatstone, inventor (died 1875)
- August 5 – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (died 1829)
- December 15 - Janos Bolyai, mathematician (died 1860)
[edit] Deaths
- April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, author of Zoonomia (born 1731)
- November 16 - André Michaux, French botanist (born 1746)
