Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 11

August 11:

 * 1464 - Death of Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)


 * 1578 - Death of Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)


 * 1851 - Death of Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)


 * 1854 - Death of Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)


 * 1905 - Birth of Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)


 * 1912 - Birth of Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)


 * 1926 - Birth of Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate


 * 1938 - Birth of Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist


 * 1956 - Birth of Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician


 * 2003 - Death of Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)