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11 Aug 1576
Martin Frobisher |
Martin Frobisher (exploration) English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him. |
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11 Aug 1578
Pedro Nunes |
death Pedro Nunes Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (born 1502) |
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11 Aug 1728
William Sherard |
death William Sherard William Sherard, English botanist (born 1659) |
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11 Aug 1818
Ivan Petrovich Kulibin |
death Ivan Petrovich Kulibin Ivan Petrovich Kulibin (born 1735), Russian inventor. |
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11 Aug 1858
Christiaan Eijkman |
birth Christiaan Eijkman Christiaan Eijkman (died 1930), Dutch physiologist. |
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11 Aug 1905
Erwin Chargaff |
birth Erwin Chargaff Erwin Chargaff (died 2002), biochemist |
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11 Aug 1912
Norman Levinson |
birth Norman Levinson Norman Levinson (died 1975), American mathematician. |
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11 Aug 1942
George Antheil |
George Antheil (technology) Composer George Antheil and actress Hedy Lamarr are granted a United States patent for a frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder to detect. |
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11 Aug 1946
Marilyn vos Savant |
birth Marilyn vos Savant Marilyn vos Savant, American polymath |
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11 Aug 1955
Robert W. Wood |
death Robert W. Wood Robert W. Wood (born 1868), American optical physicist. |
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11 Aug 1974
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore |
birth Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, English cognitive neuroscientist |
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11 Aug 1984
George Streisinger |
death George Streisinger George Streisinger (b. 1927), Hungarian American molecular biologist, the first person to clone a vertebrate. |
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11 Aug 1995
Alonzo Church |
death Alonzo Church Alonzo Church (b. 1903), American mathematician. |
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