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Science on the 6th of August in history

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Date	Type	Text
06 Aug 1729 Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh	science	Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (medicine) Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh established as the "Hospital for the Sick Poor" or "Physicians' Hospital" in Edinburgh (Scotland).	0
06 Aug 1753 Georg Wilhelm Richmann	science	death Georg Wilhelm Richmann Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (born 1711)	0
06 Aug 1766 William Hyde Wollaston	science	birth William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (died 1828)	0
06 Aug 1776 Amedeo Avogadro	science	birth Amedeo Avogadro Amedeo Avogadro, Piedmontese chemist (died 1856)	0
06 Aug 1844 James Henry Greathead	science	birth James Henry Greathead James Henry Greathead (died 1896), South African-born English civil engineer.	0
06 Aug 1881 Alexander Fleming	science	birth Alexander Fleming Alexander Fleming (died 1955), British bacteriologist.	0
06 Aug 1890 Auburn Prison	science	Auburn Prison (technology) At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the AC electric chair.	0
06 Aug 1901 Discovery Expedition	science	Discovery Expedition (exploration) Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.	0
06 Aug 1930 Joseph Le Bel	science	death Joseph Le Bel Joseph Le Bel (born 1847), French chemist.	0
06 Aug 1991 website	science	website (computer science) The first website goes online at CERN.	0
06 Aug 1996 NASA	science	NASA (biology) NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.	0
06 Aug 2002 primality test	science	primality test (mathematics) Polynomial-time primality test published.	0
06 Aug 2002 Edsger Dijkstra	science	death Edsger Dijkstra Edsger Dijkstra (b. 1930), computer scientist.	0

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