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31 Aug 1654
Ole Worm |
death Ole Worm Ole Worm, Danish physician and antiquary (born 1588) |
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31 Aug 1663
Guillaume Amontons |
birth Guillaume Amontons Guillaume Amontons, French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (died 1705) |
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31 Aug 1811
Louis Antoine de Bougainville |
death Louis Antoine de Bougainville Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (born 1729) |
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31 Aug 1821
Hermann von Helmholtz |
birth Hermann von Helmholtz Hermann von Helmholtz (died 1894), German physicist. |
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31 Aug 1830
Edwin Budding |
Edwin Budding (technology) Edwin Budding is granted a United Kingdom patent for the lawnmower. |
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31 Aug 1884
George Sarton |
birth George Sarton George Sarton (died 1956), Flemish historian of science. |
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31 Aug 1905
Robert Bacher |
birth Robert Bacher Robert Bacher (died 2004), nuclear physicist |
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31 Aug 1920
Wilhelm Wundt |
death Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist and psychologist (born 1832). |
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31 Aug 1985
Frank Macfarlane Burnet |
death Frank Macfarlane Burnet Frank Macfarlane Burnet (b. 1899), Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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31 Aug 1987
statin |
statin (medicine) The FDA for the first time approves a statin, lovastatin. |
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31 Aug 2002
George Porter |
death George Porter George Porter (b. 1920), Nobel laureate in chemistry. |
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31 Aug 2004
Fred Whipple |
death Fred Whipple Fred Whipple (b. 1906), American astronomer who coined the term "dirty snowball" to explain the nature of comets. |
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31 Aug 2005
chimpanzee |
chimpanzee (biology) A first draft of the chimpanzee genome is published. |
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31 Aug 2005
Sir Joseph Rotblat |
death Sir Joseph Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908), physicist. |
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