1753 in science

The year 1753 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Events

• Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus on May 1, adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants.
• Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, to ring a bell when struck by lightning, following the 1752 kite/key tests with his 21-year-old son.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Benjamin Franklin

Births

• March 26 - Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Anglo-American physicist (died 1814)
• April 28 - Franz Karl Achard, chemist (died 1821)
• August 3 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, engineer (died 1816)

Deaths

• August 6 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (born 1711)