Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 26

August 26:

 * 1723 - Death of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (b. 1632)


 * 1728 - Birth of Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)


 * 1736 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)


 * 1743 - Birth of Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)


 * 1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph


 * 1865 - Death of Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (b. 1791)


 * 1987 - Death of Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)


 * 1998 - Death of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)


 * 2000 - Death of Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist (b. 1939)