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Science on the 18th of August in history

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Date	Type	Text
18 Aug 1685 Brook Taylor	science	birth Brook Taylor Brook Taylor, English mathematician (died 1731)	0
18 Aug 2015 Johan Maurits Mohr	science	birth Johan Maurits Mohr Johan Maurits Mohr, Dutch astronomer (died 1775)	0
18 Aug 1774 Meriwether Lewis	science	birth Meriwether Lewis Meriwether Lewis (died 1809), explorer.	0
18 Aug 1809 Matthew Boulton	science	death Matthew Boulton Matthew Boulton, English engineer (born 1728).	0
18 Aug 1833 Canadian	science	Canadian (technology) The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.	0
18 Aug 1835 Friedrich Stromeyer	science	death Friedrich Stromeyer Friedrich Stromeyer (born 1776), German chemist.	0
18 Aug 1838 United States Exploring Expedition	science	United States Exploring Expedition (exploration) The United States Exploring Expedition under U.S. Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes sets sail for a four-year circumnavigation westabout.	0
18 Aug 1841 Louis de Freycinet	science	death Louis de Freycinet Louis de Freycinet (born 1779), explored coastal regions of Western Australia.	0
18 Aug 1868 helium	science	helium (chemistry) The element later named as helium is first detected in the spectrum of the Sun's chromosphere by French astronomer Jules Janssen during a total eclipse in Guntur, India, but assumed to be sodium.	0
18 Aug 1887 Erwin Schrödinger	science	birth Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Schrödinger (died 1961), Austrian physicist.	0
18 Aug 1922 W. H. Hudson	science	death W. H. Hudson W. H. Hudson (born 1841), naturalist.	0
18 Aug 1930 Gabrielle Howard	science	death Gabrielle Howard Gabrielle Howard (born 1876), British plant physiologist.	0
18 Aug 1932 Luc Montagnier	science	birth Luc Montagnier Luc Montagnier, French virologist and joint recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).	0
18 Aug 1947 Automatic Computing Engine	science	Automatic Computing Engine (computer science) Official start of construction of Automatic Computing Engine in the United Kingdom.	0
18 Aug 1951 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	science	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (organizations) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur inaugurated in West Bengal as the first of the Indian Institutes of Technology.	0
18 Aug 1953 Kinsey Reports	science	Kinsey Reports (medicine and human s) The second of the controversial Kinsey Reports on human sexuality, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, is published in the United States.	0
18 Aug 1976 Shintaro Uda	science	death Shintaro Uda Shintaro Uda (b. 1886), Japanese electrical engineer.	0

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