Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 27

August 27:

• 1858 - Birth of Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (d. 1932)

• 1874 - Birth of Carl Bosch, German chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)

• 1915 - Birth of Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate

• 1926 - Birth of Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian mathematician (d. 2002)

• 1958 - Death of Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)