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30 Aug 1751
Christopher Polhem |
death Christopher Polhem Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (born 1661) |
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30 Aug 1804
Thomas Percival |
death Thomas Percival Thomas Percival, reforming physician and medical ethicist (born 1740) |
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30 Aug 1844
Francis Baily |
death Francis Baily Francis Baily (born 1774), English astronomer. |
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30 Aug 1852
Jacobus van 't Hoff |
birth Jacobus van 't Hoff Jacobus van 't Hoff (died 1911), Dutch chemist. |
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30 Aug 1890
Marianne North |
death Marianne North Marianne North (born 1830), English botanist. |
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30 Aug 1901
Hubert Cecil Booth |
Hubert Cecil Booth (technology) Hubert Cecil Booth patents the electrically powered vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom |
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30 Aug 1907
John Mauchly |
birth John Mauchly John Mauchly (died 1980), American co-inventor of the ENIAC computer. |
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30 Aug 1909
Burgess Shale |
Burgess Shale (paleontology) Discovery of the Burgess Shale Cambrian fossil site in the Canadian Rockies by paleontologist Charles Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution. |
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30 Aug 1912
Edward Mills Purcell |
birth Edward Mills Purcell Edward Mills Purcell (died 1997), American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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30 Aug 1928
Wilhelm Wien |
death Wilhelm Wien Wilhelm Wien (born 1864), physicist. |
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30 Aug 1931
Jack Swigert |
birth Jack Swigert Jack Swigert (died 1982), American astronaut. |
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30 Aug 1948
Russian |
Russian (medicine and human s) Russian scientist Victor Skumin first describes "cardioprosthetic psychopathological syndrome", later known as Skumin syndrome, a form of anxiety suffered by recipients of artificial heart valves. |
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30 Aug 1963
Marietta Pallis |
death Marietta Pallis Marietta Pallis (born 1882), British ecologist. |
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30 Aug 1992
trans-Neptunian object |
trans-Neptunian object (astronomy) Discovery of (15760) 1992 QB1, the first trans-Neptunian object to be found after Pluto and Charon. |
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