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13 Aug 1625
Rasmus Bartholin |
birth Rasmus Bartholin Rasmus Bartholin, Danish scientist (died 1698) |
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13 Aug 1819
George Gabriel Stokes |
birth George Gabriel Stokes George Gabriel Stokes (died 1903), mathematician and physicist. |
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13 Aug 1822
Jean-Robert Argand |
death Jean-Robert Argand Jean-Robert Argand, mathematician (born 1768) |
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13 Aug 1844
Friedrich Miescher |
birth Friedrich Miescher Friedrich Miescher (died 1895), Swiss biologist. |
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13 Aug 1888
John Logie Baird |
birth John Logie Baird John Logie Baird (died 1946), inventor. |
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13 Aug 1894
Allan truss bridge |
Allan truss bridge (technology) The first Allan truss bridge, designed by Percy Allan, is completed in New South Wales. |
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13 Aug 1902
Felix Wankel |
birth Felix Wankel Felix Wankel (died 1988), German mechanical engineer. |
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13 Aug 1912
Salvador Luria |
birth Salvador Luria Salvador Luria (died 1991), Italian-born biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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13 Aug 1914
Grace Bates |
birth Grace Bates Grace Bates (died 1996), American mathematician. |
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13 Aug 1918
Frederick Sanger |
birth Frederick Sanger Frederick Sanger (died 2013), double Nobel Prize-winning English molecular biologist. |
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13 Aug 1927
James Oliver Curwood |
death James Oliver Curwood James Oliver Curwood (born 1887), American novelist and conservationist. |
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13 Aug 1942
United States |
United States (physics) United States Chief of Engineers, Major General Eugene Reybold formally establishes the 'Manhattan Engineer District' of the Corps of Engineers to undertake production facility construction work for what will become known as the Manhattan Project. |
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13 Aug 1946
H. G. Wells |
death H. G. Wells H. G. Wells (born 1866), scientific populariser. |
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