Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 14

August 14:

 * 1777 - Birth of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)


 * 1856 - Death of Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)


 * 1860 - Death of André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)


 * 1865 - Birth of Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)


 * 1866 - Birth of Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962)


 * 1885 - Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint


 * 1933 - Birth of Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate


 * 1941 - Death of Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)


 * 1958 - Death of Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)