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The year 1802 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Astronomy 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Astronomy

• March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the second asteroid Pallas.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: William Hyde Wollaston

[edit] Births

• February 6 - Charles Wheatstone, inventor (died 1875)
• August 5 – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician (died 1829)
• December 15 - Janos Bolyai, mathematician (died 1860)

[edit] Deaths

• April 18 - Erasmus Darwin, author of Zoonomia (born 1731)
• November 16 - André Michaux, French botanist (born 1746)