page_title: 1797 in science
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: 1797 in science / Births
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: sujet: Charles Lyell source: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/175th/faq40i.htm licence:
context_page_description: The year 1797 in science and technology involved some significant events.
context_section_description: January 3 – Frederick William Hope, British zoologist (died 1862)
  January 4 – Wilhelm Beer, Prussian astronomer (died 1850)
  February – Joseph-Alphonse Adhémar, French mathematician (died 1862)
  February 2 – Joseph Guislain, Flemish psychiatrist (died 1860)
  February 5 – Jean-Marie Duhamel, French mathematician and physicist (died 1872)
  March 10 – George Poulett Scrope, British geologist and economist (died 1876)
  March 21 – Johann Andreas Wagner, German paleontologist, zoologist and archeologist (died 1861)
  April 29 – George Don, Scottish botanist (died 1856)
  May 2 – Abraham Gesner, Canadian inventor of kerosene (died 1864)
  May 30 – Karl Friedrich Naumann, German geologist and mineralogist (died 1873)
  July 14 – James Scott Bowerbank, British naturalist, geologist and paleontologist (died 1877)
  July 26 – William Hutton, British geologist and paleontologist (died 1860)
  August 23 – Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, French mechanician and mathematician (died 1886)
  August 31 – James Ferguson, Scottish-born American astronomer (died 1867)
  September 1 – Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut, French chemist (died 1881)
  September 10 – Carl Gustaf Mosander, Swedish chemist (died 1858)
  September 17 – Heinrich Kuhl, German zoologist (died 1821)
  October 4 – Félix Savary, French astronomer (died 1841)
  October 5 – John Gardner Wilkinson, British egyptologist (died 1875)
  November 14 – Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (died 1875)
  November 20 - Mary Buckland, British paleontologist and marine biologist (died 1857)
  December 3
  Margaretta Morris, American entomologist  (died 1867)
  Andrew Smith, Scottish military surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist (died 1872)
  December 17 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (died 1878)
  December 23 – Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1853)
caption: Charles Lyell
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