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August 1, 1774 - Polymath Joseph Priestley discovers "dephlogisticated air"

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August 1, 1924 - Birth of Georges Charpak, Nobel Prize for inventing and developing particle detectors

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August 2, 1893 - Birth of Isabel Knaggs, contributed to the development of X-ray crystallography

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August 2, 1776 - Birth of Friedrich Stromeyer, discoverer of the chemical element cadmium

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August 3, 1958 - The "Nautilus" is the first submarine to pass under the North Pole

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August 4, 1928 - Birth of Vera Yurásova, researched the interactions of atomic particles with solids

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August 5, 1952 – Death of Sameera Moussa: “My wish is that nuclear cancer treatment is as affordable and cheap as aspirin”

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August 5, 1862 - Birth of Lucy Everest Boole, the first female professor of the London School of Medicine for Women and the first female member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry

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August 6, 1766 - Birth of William Hyde Wollaston, discoverer of palladium and rhodium

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August 7, 1948 - Death of Mileva Marić Ruzić, how much did she contribute to Einstein's discoveries?

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August 8, 1901 - Birth of Ernest Lawrence, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the cyclotron

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August 9, 1776 – Birth of Amedeo Avogadro, physicist and chemist who formulated the famous Avogadro's Law

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