Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 6

August 6:

 * 1694 - Death of Antoine Arnauld, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1612)


 * 1753 - Death of Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)


 * 1766 - Birth of William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (d. 1828)


 * 1845 - The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg


 * 1881 - Birth of Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1955)


 * 1900 - Birth of Cecil H. Green, American geophysicist (d. 2003)


 * 1979 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)


 * 1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet


 * 1998 - Death of André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)