Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 5

August 5:

 * 1802 - Birth of Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1829)


 * 1866 - Birth of Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)


 * 1952 - Death of Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (b. 1917)


 * 1957 - Death of Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)