Editing 1792 in science (section)

==Births==
* January 12 — [[Johan August Arfwedson]], [[Swedes|Swedish]] [[chemist]] (died [[1841 in science|1841]])
* February 1 — [[Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach]], [[Germans|German]] [[plastic surgeon]] (died [[1847 in science|1847]])
* February 17 — [[Karl Ernst von Baer]], [[Estonia]]n [[naturalist]] (died [[1876 in science|1876]])
* March 7 — [[John Herschel]], [[English people|English]] [[mathematician]] and [[astronomer]] (died [[1871 in science|1871]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8CdCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA123|year=1872|publisher=Priestley and Weale|pages=123}}</ref>
* May 21 — [[Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis]], [[French people|French]] mathematician, discoverer of the [[Coriolis effect]] (died [[1843 in science|1843]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Willard Nybakken|author2=William W. Broenkow|author3=Tracy Lowell Vallier|title=Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-w5AQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Grolier Academic Reference|isbn=978-0-7172-5946-5|page=252}}</ref>
* July 7 — [[Diego de Argumosa]], [[Spaniards|Spanish]] [[surgeon]] (died [[1865 in science|1865]])
* December 1 (November 20 [[Old Style]]) — [[Nikolai Lobachevsky]], [[Russia]]n mathematician and [[geometer]] (died [[1856 in science|1856]])