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Science on the 16th of August in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
16 Aug 1533 Diogo Ribeiro	science	death Diogo Ribeiro Diogo Ribeiro, Portuguese-Spanish cartographer and explorer (b. unknown)	0
16 Aug 1705 Jakob Bernoulli	science	death Jakob Bernoulli Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 1654)	0
16 Aug 1715 Raymond Vieussens	science	death Raymond Vieussens Raymond Vieussens, French anatomist (born c. 1635)	0
16 Aug 1744 Pierre Méchain	science	birth Pierre Méchain Pierre Méchain, French astronomer (died 1804)	0
16 Aug 1763 Giovanni Battista Guglielmini	science	birth Giovanni Battista Guglielmini Giovanni Battista Guglielmini, Bolognese physicist (died 1817)	0
16 Aug 1787 Jean Michel Claude Richard	science	birth Jean Michel Claude Richard Jean Michel Claude Richard (died 1868), French botanist.	0
16 Aug 1821 Arthur Cayley	science	birth Arthur Cayley Arthur Cayley (died 1895), English mathematician.	0
16 Aug 1832 Wilhelm Wundt	science	birth Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Wundt (died 1920), physiologist and psychologist.	0
16 Aug 1893 Jean-Martin Charcot	science	death Jean-Martin Charcot Jean-Martin Charcot (born 1825), French neurologist.	0
16 Aug 1899 Robert Bunsen	science	death Robert Bunsen Robert Bunsen (born 1811), German chemist, perfector of the bunsen burner.	0
16 Aug 1905 Marian Rejewski	science	birth Marian Rejewski Marian Rejewski (died 1980), mathematician and cryptologist	0
16 Aug 1920 Norman Lockyer	science	death Norman Lockyer Norman Lockyer, English astronomer (born 1836).	0
16 Aug 1957 Irving Langmuir	science	death Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir (born 1881), chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932.	0
16 Aug 1994 smartphone	science	smartphone (technology) The world's first smartphone, the IBM Simon, goes on sale.	0

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