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Overview of the events of 1795 in science
The year 1795 in science and technology involved some significant events.
April 7 – The gram is decreed in France to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the metre, at the temperature of melting ice."[ 3] January 6 – Anselme Payen , French chemist (died 1878 )
May 5 – Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave , French dermatologist (died 1877 )
June 24 – Ernst Heinrich Weber , German physician , psychologist (died 1878 )
June 30 – Joseph Bienaimé Caventou , French chemist (died 1877 )
July 5 – Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe , German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist (died 1880 )
July 10 – Jean-Baptiste Guimet , French industrial chemist (died 1871 )
November 12 – Thaddeus William Harris , American naturalist (died 1856 )
December 8 – Peter Andreas Hansen , Danish astronomer (died 1874 )
December 21
January 21 – Samuel Wallis , English navigator (born 1728 )
March 21 – Giovanni Arduino , Italian geologist (born 1714 )
May 6 – Pieter Boddaert , Dutch physician and naturalist (born 1730 )
June 1 – Pierre-Joseph Desault , French anatomist and surgeon (born 1744 )
June 9 – François Chopart , French surgeon (born 1743 )
June 17 – Gilbert Romme , French politician and mathematician (born 1750 )
June 18 – Marie Marguerite Bihéron , French anatomist (born 1719 )
June 24 – William Smellie , Scottish naturalist and encyclopedist (born 1740 )
July 3 – Antonio de Ulloa , Spanish explorer (born 1716 )
August 14 – George Adams , English scientific instrument maker (born 1750 )
October 1 – Robert Bakewell , English agriculturalist and geneticist (born 1725 )
December 28 – Eugenio Espejo , Ecuadorian medical hygienist, lawyer and journalist (born 1747 )
^ Not published until 1809 .
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