Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 8

May 8
 * 1698 - Birth of Henry Baker, English naturalist (d. 1774)
 * 1788 - Death of Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
 * 1794 - Death of Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
 * 1842 - Birth of Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (d. 1909)
 * 1985 - Death of Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918)
 * 1988 - Death of Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)
 * 1902 - Birth of Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
 * 1947 - Birth of H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1960 - Death of J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)