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The year 1778 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antoine Lavoisier</span> French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antoine Laurent de Jussieu</span> French botanist noted for the concept of plant families (1748-1836)

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on an extended unpublished work by his uncle, the botanist Bernard de Jussieu.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antoine-François de Fourcroy</span> French chemist

Antoine François Fourcroy was a French chemist and a contemporary of Antoine Lavoisier. Fourcroy collaborated with Lavoisier, Guyton de Morveau, and Claude Berthollet on the Méthode de nomenclature chimique, a work that helped standardize chemical nomenclature.

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The year 1771 in science and technology involved some significant events.

The year 1776 in science and technology involved some significant events.

The year 1728 in science and technology involved some significant events.

The year 1797 in science and technology involved some significant events.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henri Ernest Baillon</span> French botanist and physician

Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on 30 November 1827 and died in Paris on 19 July 1895.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel-Auguste Tissot</span> Swiss physician (1728–1797)

Samuel Auguste André David Tissot was a notable 18th-century Swiss physician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antoine Louis</span> 18th century French surgeon and physiologist

Antoine Louis was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist.

Raoul Bensaude was a French-Portuguese physician born in the Azores of Portuguese-Jewish descent.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Jacques Malouin</span> French physician and chemist

Paul Jacques Malouin was a French physician and chemist.

The Commission des Sciences et des Arts was a French scientific and artistic institute. Established on 16 March 1798, it consisted of 167 members, of which all but 16 joined Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt and produced the Description de l'Égypte. More than half were engineers and technicians, including 21 mathematicians, 3 astronomers, 17 civil engineers, 13 naturalists and mining engineers, geographers, 3 gunpowder engineers, 4 architects, 8 artists, 10 mechanical artists, 1 sculptor, 15 interpreters, 10 men of letters, 22 printers in Latin, Greek and Arabic characters. Bonaparte organised his scientific 'corps' like an army, dividing its members into 5 categories and assigning to each member a military rank and a defined military role beyond his scientific function.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Debauve & Gallais</span>

Debauve & Gallais is a French chocolate manufacturer founded by Sulpice Debauve in 1800. After his nephew Antoine Gallais joined the company in 1823, the company adopted their current name. In 1819 the company received the royal warrant as purveyors to the French court, and was the official chocolate supplier for Emperor Napoleon and of kings Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis Philippe.

Jean-Baptiste-Michel Bucquet was a French chemist, member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences, physician and public teacher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Théophile de Bordeu</span> French physician, 1722–1776

Théophile de Bordeu was a French physician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Louis Lépecq de La Clôture</span> French surgeon and epidemiologist

Louis Lépecq de La Clôture was a French surgeon and epidemiologist. His work consisted mainly of a 15-year observation of the relations between climate, geography and pathologies in Normandy.

Pierre Amable Jean-Baptiste Trannoy was a French physician, hygienist and botanist.

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