Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 8
July 8:[edit]
- 1695 - Death of Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
- 1760 - Birth of Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826)
- 1784 - Death of Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
- 1895 - Birth of Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
- 1895 - Death of Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
- 1904 - Birth of Henri Cartan, French mathematician
- 1934 - Death of Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
- 1969 - IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
- 1979 - Death of Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
- 1979 - Death of Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)