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||Johann Hieronymus Schröter (b. 30 August 1745) was a German astronomer.
||1745: Johann Hieronymus Schröter born ... astronomer.


||1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
||1751: Christopher Polhem dies ... physicist and engineer.


File:Christopher Polhem painted by Johan Henrik Scheffel 1741.jpg|link=Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|1661: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist [[Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|Christopher Polhem]] dies. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.
File:Christopher Polhem painted by Johan Henrik Scheffel 1741.jpg|link=Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|1661: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist [[Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|Christopher Polhem]] dies. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.


||Joseph Alfred Serret (b. August 30, 1819) was a French mathematician.  He will be known for the Frenet–Serret formulas. Pic.
||1819: Joseph Alfred Serret born ... mathematician.  He will be known for the Frenet–Serret formulas. Pic.
 
||1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electrical transformer.


File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1844: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] dies.  He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1844: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] dies.  He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).


||1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Jr. (Dutch pronunciation: [vɑn(ə)t ˈɦɔf]; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
||1852: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.


||1856 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927)
||1856: Carl David Tolmé Runge born ... mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist.


||1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
||1871: Ernest Rutherford born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Theodor Svedberg.jpg|link=Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|1884: Chemist and academic [[Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|Theodor Svedberg]] born. He will be awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.
File:Theodor Svedberg.jpg|link=Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|1884: Chemist and academic [[Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|Theodor Svedberg]] born. He will be awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.
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||1909: Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
||1909: Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.


||1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures.
||1912: Edward Mills Purcell born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures.


||1918: Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev born ... engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building.
||1918: Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev born ... engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building.

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