Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 8

September 8:

• 1588 - Birth of Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648)

• 1811 - Death of Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)

• 1882 - Death of Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)

• 1918 - Birth of Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

• 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape

• 1965 - Death of Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

• 1980 - Death of Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)

• 1981 - Death of Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

• 1985 - Death of John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)