Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 8

April 8:

 * 1461 - Death of Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)


 * 1732 - Birth of David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796)


 * 1818 - Birth of August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)


 * 1865 - Birth of Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940)


 * 1911 - Birth of Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)


 * 1919 - Death of Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)


 * 1984 - Death of Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)


 * 1992 - Death of Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)