| Dates | Characters | Theories and discoveries |
| 1751 | Benjamin Franklin | Electricity can magnetise needles |
| 1751 | Frederik Cronstedt | Element nickel |
| 1752 | Jean d’Alembert | Viscosity |
| 1754 | Joseph Black | Discovery of carbon dioxide showing that there are gases other than air |
| 1755 | Immanuel Kant | Theory that the universe formed from a spinning nebula in an infinite hierarchy |
| 1756 | William Cullen | Evaporation causes cooling |
| 1756 | Mikhail Lomonosov | Supports wave theory of light |
| 1761 | Joseph Black | Discovery and measurements of latent and specific heats |
| 1761 | John Harrison | Portable chronometer |
| 1765 | Leonhard Euler | Rigid body motions |
| 1766 | Joseph Priestley | Inverse square law for electric charge |
| 1766 | Henry Cavendish | Hydrogen is an element |
| 1771 | Luigi Galvani | Electricity in animals |
| 1772 | Carl Scheele | Saw air as two gases one of which encouraged combustion |
| 1772 | Daniel Rutherford | Nitrogen discovered |
| 1772 | Antoine Lavoisier | Conservation of mass in chemical reactions |
| 1772 | Joseph Lagrange | Theory of Lagrange points |
| 1774 | Priestley, Scheele | Element oxygen |
| 1774 | Nevil Maskelyne | Gravitational deflection of plumb line by a mountain |
| 1774 | Carl Scheele | Element chlorine |
| 1774 | Johann Gahn | Element manganese |
| 1775 | Alessandro Volta | Electrical condenser |
| 1776 | Pierre-Simon Laplace | Deterministic causality |
| 1777 | Antoine Lavoisier | Composition of air and burning as a chemical reaction |
| 1779 | Charles Augustin de Coulomb | Coulomb’s law of friction |
| 1781 | Immanuel Kant | Critique of pure reason |
| 1781 | William Herschel | Discovery of Uranus |
| 1781 | Carl Scheele | Element molybdenum in ore |
| 1781 | Charles Messier | Catalogue of nebulae |
| 1781 | Heinrich Olbers | Uranus is a planet, not a comet |
| 1782 | Jacob Hjelm | Isolation of element molybdenum |
| 1782 | Franz von Reichstein | Element tellurium in ores |
| 1782 | William Herschel | Catalog of double stars |
| 1782 | William Herschel | Sun’s motion through space |
| 1783 | John Michell | Newtonian black hole |
| 1783 | Fausto/Juan José de Elhuyar | Element tungsten |
| 1783 | Rene Hauy | Nature of crystals |
| 1784 | Henry Cavendish | Water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen |
| 1784 | Pierre Laplace | Electrostatic potential |
| 1785 | Charles Augustin de Coulomb | Electric force proportional to product of charges & 1/square of distance |
| 1786 | Antoine Lavoisier | Distinction between elements and compounds |
| 1787 | Antoine Lavoisier | System for naming chemicals |
| 1787 | Jacques-Alexander Charles | Law of gas expansion with temperature |
| 1788 | Joseph Lagrange | Lagrangian mechanics |
| 1788 | John Hunter | Diffusion of heat |
| 1789 | Antoine Lavoisier | Conservation of mass in chemical reactions |
| 1789 | Martin Klaproth | Elements zirconium and uranium in compounds |
| 1790 | Mechain and Delambre | Definition of metric system in France |
| 1790 | Adair Crawford | Element strontium in compounds |
| 1791 | William Gregor | Element titanium in compounds |
| 1794 | Johann Gadolin | Element yttrium in compounds |
| 1794 | Pierre Laplace | Analysis of Newtonian black hole |
| 1796 | Alessandro Volta | Chemical batteries and voltage |
| 1797 | Henry Cavendish | Measured the gravitational constant with a torsion balance |
| 1797 | Nicholas Vauquelin | Element berylium idnetified in gem stones |
| 1797 | Nicholas Vauquelin | Element chromium discovered |
| 1798 | Benjamin Thompson | Heat generated equals work done |
| 1798 | M. Klaproth | Isolation of element tellurium |
| 1798 | Humphry Davy | Transmission of heat through vacuum |
| 1798 | Benjamin Rumford | Experimental relation between work done and heat generated |
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