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CHEMISTRY

John Roebuck invents the lead-chamber process for the manufacture of Sulfuric Acid

German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709-1782) is credited with describing Zinc as a separate metal

GEOLOGY

Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the French Academy Of Sciences

MATHEMATICS

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert develops the theory of Complex Number s

AWARDS

BIRTHS

March 7 - André Michaux , French botanist (died 1802 )

May 10 - Gaspard Monge , mathematician (died 1818 )

July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi , astronomer (died 1826 )

Giovanni Battista Venturi , Italian physicist after whom the Venturi tube was named (died 1822 )

DEATHS

June 14 - Colin Maclaurin , Scottish mathematician (born 1698 )

November 14 - Georg Steller , German naturalist (born 1709 )