Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 8

February 8:

• 1677 - Birth of Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)

• 1700 - Birth of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)

• 1807 - Birth of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)

• 1834 - Birth of Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)

• 1856 - Death of Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)

• 1906 - Birth of Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1968)

• 1907 - Death of Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (b. 1854)

• 1957 - Death of Walther Bothe, German physicist and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)

• 1957 - Death of John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)

• 1969 - Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico

• 1975 - Death of Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)