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Science on the 7th of August in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
07 Aug 1574 Robert Dudley	science	birth Robert Dudley Robert Dudley, English navigator (died 1649)	0
07 Aug 1639 Martin van den Hove	science	death Martin van den Hove Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer (born 1605)	0
07 Aug 1779 Jöns Jacob Berzelius	science	birth Jöns Jacob Berzelius Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (died 1848)	0
07 Aug 1779 Louis de Freycinet	science	birth Louis de Freycinet Louis de Freycinet, French explorer of coastal regions of Western Australia (died 1842)	0
07 Aug 1817 Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours	science	death Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (born 1739), French-born American industrialist.	0
07 Aug 1834 Joseph Marie Jacquard	science	death Joseph Marie Jacquard Joseph Marie Jacquard (born 1752), French inventor.	0
07 Aug 1848 Jöns Jakob Berzelius	science	death Jöns Jakob Berzelius Jöns Jakob Berzelius (born 1779), Swedish chemist.	0
07 Aug 1873 Amalie Dietrich	science	Amalie Dietrich (exploration) Amalie Dietrich arrives in Australia to begin a decade of collecting specimens in natural history and anthropology	0
07 Aug 1889 Léon Brillouin	science	birth Léon Brillouin Léon Brillouin (died 1969), French physicist.	0
07 Aug 1903 Louis Leakey	science	birth Louis Leakey Louis Leakey (died 1972), British East African paleoanthropologist.	0
07 Aug 1912 François-Alphonse Forel	science	death François-Alphonse Forel François-Alphonse Forel (born 1841), Swiss pioneer of limnology.	0
07 Aug 1930 Joe Farman	science	birth Joe Farman Joe Farman (died 2013), British geophysicist working for the British Antarctic Survey.	0
07 Aug 1944 IBM	science	IBM (computer science) IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, best known as the Harvard Mark I.	0
07 Aug 1947 Thor Heyerdahl	science	Thor Heyerdahl (anthropology) Thor Heyerdahl's balsa-wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile (6900-km) journey across the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America.	0
07 Aug 1948 Mendelian	science	Mendelian (biology) Teaching and research in Mendelian genetics is prohibited in the Soviet Union in favour of Lysenkoist theories of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.	0
07 Aug 1959 Explorer 6	science	Explorer 6 (astronomy and space ) The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.	0
07 Aug 1966 Jimmy Wales	science	birth Jimmy Wales Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur.	0
07 Aug 1975 César Milstein	science	César Milstein (biology) César Milstein and Georges Köhler report their discovery of how to use hybridoma cells to isolate monoclonal antibodies, effectively beginning the history of monoclonal antibody use in science.	0
07 Aug 1976 Viking program	science	Viking program (astronomy and space ) Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.	0

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