Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 7
August 7:[edit]
- 1639 - Death of Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
- 1844 - Birth of Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911)
- 1848 - Death of Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
- 1868 - Birth of Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
- 1925 - Birth of M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist
- 1944 - IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I)
- 1976 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars