Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 22

August 22:

 * 1647 - Birth of Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)


 * 1752 - Death of William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)


 * 1828 - Death of Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)


 * 1834 - Birth of Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)


 * 1867 - Birth of Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)


 * 1913 - Birth of Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)


 * 1918 - Death of Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)


 * 1940 - Death of Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)


 * 1974 - Death of Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)