Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 13

August 13:

• 1625 - Birth of Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1698)

• 1814 - Birth of Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist (d. 1874)

• 1819 - Birth of George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (d. 1903)

• 1872 - Birth of Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)

• 1912 - Birth of Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1991)

• 1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley

• 1917 - Death of Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1860)

• 1918 - Birth of Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

• 2008 - Death of Henri Cartan,French mathematician (b. 1904)