Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 27

August 27:

 * 1858 - Birth of Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)


 * 1874 - Birth of Carl Bosch, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)


 * 1915 - Birth of Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1926 - Birth of Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)


 * 1958 - Death of Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)