Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 8

July 8:

 * 1695 - Death of Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)


 * 1760 - Birth of Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)


 * 1784 - Death of Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)


 * 1895 - Birth of Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)


 * 1895  - Death of Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist  (b. 1821)


 * 1904 - Birth of Henri Cartan, French mathematician


 * 1934 - Death of Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)


 * 1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer


 * 1979 - Death of Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)


 * 1979  - Death of Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)