Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 8

October 8:

 * 1652 – Death of John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)


 * 1789 – Birth of William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855)


 * 1829 - Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials


 * 1850 – Birth of Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)


 * 1917 – Birth of Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)


 * 1918 – Birth of Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel laureate


 * 1927 – Birth of César Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)


 * 1985 – Death of Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (b. 1919)


 * 2008 – Death of George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)