Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 7

August 7:

 * 1639 - Death of Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)


 * 1844 - Birth of Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)


 * 1848 - Death of Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)


 * 1868 - Birth of Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)


 * 1925 - Birth of M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist


 * 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)


 * 1976 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars