Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 15

August 15:

 * 1758 - Death of Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (b. 1698)


 * 1852 - Death of Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)


 * 1863 - Birth of Alexei Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician (d. 1945)


 * 1892 - Birth of Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)


 * 1893 - Birth of Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)


 * 1896 - Birth of Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957)


 * 1901 - Birth of Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975)


 * 1953 - Death of Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)


 * 1977 - The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by The Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project


 * 1982 - Death of Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)


 * 2004 - Death of Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)