Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 3

August 3:

 * 1917 - Death of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (b. 1849)


 * 1942 - Death of Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1872)


 * 1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap


 * 1959 - Birth of Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, Nobel laureate