Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 22
August 22:[edit]
- 1647 - Birth of Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712)
- 1752 - Death of William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667)
- 1828 - Death of Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (b. 1758)
- 1834 - Birth of Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906)
- 1867 - Birth of Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
- 1913 - Birth of Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Death of Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
- 1940 - Death of Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851)
- 1974 - Death of Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. 1908)