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Science on the 20th of August in history

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Date	Type	Text
20 Aug 1601 Pierre de Fermat	science	birth Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)	0
20 Aug 1719 Christian Mayer	science	birth Christian Mayer Christian Mayer, astronomer (died 1783)	0
20 Aug 1831 Eduard Suess	science	birth Eduard Suess Eduard Suess (died 1914), geologist.	0
20 Aug 1864 John Alexander Reina Newlands	science	John Alexander Reina Newlands (chemistry) John Alexander Reina Newlands produces the first periodic table of the elements.	0
20 Aug 1885 Ernst Hartwig	science	Ernst Hartwig (astronomy) Ernst Hartwig discovers S Andromedae, a supernova in the Andromeda galaxy, the first supernova discovered beyond the Milky Way.	0
20 Aug 1897 Ronald Ross	science	Ronald Ross (medicine) Ronald Ross discovers the malaria Plasmodium in an Anopheles mosquito, demonstrating the transmission mechanism for the disease.	0
20 Aug 1905 Franz Reuleaux	science	death Franz Reuleaux Franz Reuleaux (born 1829), mechanical engineer	0
20 Aug 1913 Roger Wolcott Sperry	science	birth Roger Wolcott Sperry Roger Wolcott Sperry (died 1994), American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate.	0
20 Aug 1929 John Logie Baird	science	John Logie Baird (communications) First transmissions of John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system by the British Broadcasting Corporation.	0
20 Aug 1931 Ayhan Ulubelen	science	birth Ayhan Ulubelen Ayhan Ulubelen, Turkish natural product chemist.	0
20 Aug 1955 Dorothy Hodgkin	science	Dorothy Hodgkin (chemistry) Dorothy Hodgkin and colleagues publish the final structure of vitamin B₁₂.	0
20 Aug 1975 Viking program	science	Viking program (astronomy and space ) Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.	0
20 Aug 1977 Voyager program	science	Voyager program (astronomy and space ) Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.	0
20 Aug 1989 George Adamson	science	death George Adamson George Adamson (born 1906), wildlife conservationist.	0
20 Aug 2001 Fred Hoyle	science	death Fred Hoyle Fred Hoyle (b. 1915), English astronomer and science fiction writer.	0

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