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PHYSICS

Pierre Prévost shows that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are

AWARDS

; Jean-André Deluc

BIRTHS

April 9 - George Peacock , English mathematician (died 1858 )

April 27 - Samuel F. B. Morse , inventor (died 1872 )

July 13 - Allan Cunningham , English botanist and explorer (died 1839 )

September 22 - Michael Faraday , chemist and physicist (died 1867 )

September 23 - Johann Franz Encke , astronomer (died 1865 )

December 26 - Charles Babbage , English mathematician and inventor of computing machines (died 1871 )

DEATHS