Portal:Physics/Anniversaries/August


 * 2 August 1932 – The positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
 * 2 August 1939 – Einstein and Leó Szilárd urge Franklin D. Roosevelt to begin the Manhattan project.
 * 3 August 1958 – USS Nautilus under the Arctic ice cap.
 * 3 August 1972 – U.S. Senate ratifies Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Birthdays

 * 1820 - John Tyndall      2 August
 * 1871 - Ernest Rutherford 30 August
 * 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger 12 August
 * 1902 - Paul Dirac        8 August
 * 1931 – Roger Penrose     8 August
 * 1934 - Valery Bykovsky   2 August
 * 1951 - Edward Witten     26 August
 * 1959 – Koichi Tanaka     3 August

Deaths

 * 2 August 1922 – Alexander Graham Bell
 * 3 August 1942 – Richard Willstätter, Nobel laureate
 * 28 August 2006 - Melvin Schwartz, Nobel laureate