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The year 1777 in science and technology involved some significant events.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: John Mudge

[edit] Births

• April 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician (died 1855)
• August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist (died 1851)

[edit] Deaths

• September 22 - John Bartram, naturalist and explorer considered the "father of American botany" (born 1699)
• December 7 - Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (born 1708)