Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 8

August 8:

 * 1518 - Birth of Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)


 * 1555 - Death of Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)


 * 1828 - Death of Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)


 * 1876 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph


 * 1901 - Birth of Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)


 * 1902 - Birth of Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)


 * 1911 - The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire


 * 1921 - Birth of John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)


 * 1931 - Birth of Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist


 * 1968 - Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant


 * 1987 - Death of Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)


 * 1996 - Death of Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)