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The year 1775 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Medicine

• Percivall Pott finds the first occupational link to cancer, contributing to the science of epidemiology.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Nevil Maskelyne

Births

• January 22 - André-Marie Ampère, physicist (died 1836)
• May 10 - William Phillips, geologist (died 1828)
• July 23 - Étienne-Louis Malus, physicist and mathematician (died 1812)
• September 30 - Robert Adrain, mathematician (died 1843)
• November 19 - Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, entomologist and zoologist (died 1813)
• December 12 - William Henry, chemist (died 1836)

Deaths

• March 3 - Richard Dunthorne, astronomer (born 1711)