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Science on the 2nd of August in history

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Date	Type	Text
02 Aug 1512 Alessandro Achillini	science	death Alessandro Achillini Alessandro Achillini, Italian anatomist (born 1463)	0
02 Aug 1533 Theodor Zwinger	science	birth Theodor Zwinger Theodor Zwinger the elder, Swiss philosopher, physician and encyclopedist (died 1588)	0
02 Aug 1672 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer	science	birth Johann Jakob Scheuchzer Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss natural historian (died 1733)	0
02 Aug 1776 Friedrich Stromeyer	science	birth Friedrich Stromeyer Friedrich Stromeyer, German chemist, discoverer of cadmium (died 1835)	0
02 Aug 1799 Jacques Étienne Montgolfier	science	death Jacques Étienne Montgolfier Jacques Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (born 1745)	0
02 Aug 1820 John Tyndall	science	birth John Tyndall John Tyndall (died 1893), physicist.	0
02 Aug 1835 Elisha Gray	science	birth Elisha Gray Elisha Gray (died 1901), American electrical engineer.	0
02 Aug 1870 Tower Subway	science	Tower Subway (technology) Official opening of the Tower Subway beneath the River Thames in London, first use of the cylindrical wrought iron tunnelling shield devised by Peter W. Barlow and James Henry Greathead and of a permanent tunnel lining of cast iron segments.	0
02 Aug 1903 Edmond Nocard	science	death Edmond Nocard Edmond Nocard (born 1850), French veterinarian and microbiologist.	0
02 Aug 1922 Alexander Graham Bell	science	death Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (born 1847), inventor.	0
02 Aug 1927 Gabriel Horn	science	birth Gabriel Horn Gabriel Horn (died 2012), English biologist.	0
02 Aug 1932 positron	science	positron (physics) The positron is observed by Carl Anderson.	0
02 Aug 1939 Einstein–Szilárd letter	science	Einstein–Szilárd letter (physics) The Einstein–Szilárd letter is signed, advising President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt of the potential use of uranium to construct an atomic bomb. It is delivered on October 11.	0
02 Aug 1941 Jules A. Hoffmann	science	birth Jules A. Hoffmann Jules A. Hoffmann, Luxembourg-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011).	0
02 Aug 1971 Ruth Lawrence	science	birth Ruth Lawrence Ruth Lawrence, English-born mathematician.	0
02 Aug 1983 Edmund Jaeger	science	death Edmund Jaeger Edmund Jaeger, American naturalist (b. 1887)	0
02 Aug 1996 Texas	science	Texas (meteorology) The first blizzard of snow in Texas.	0
02 Aug 2004 NASA	science	NASA (space exploration) NASA successfully launches the MESSENGER probe on its 5-year trip to Mercury.	0

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