Portal:Physics/Anniversaries/August

• 2 August 1932 – The positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
• 2 August 1939 – Einstein and Leó Szilárd urge Franklin D. Roosevelt to begin the Manhattan project.
• 3 August 1958 – USS Nautilus under the Arctic ice cap.
• 3 August 1972 – U.S. Senate ratifies Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Birthdays

• 1820 - John Tyndall 2 August
• 1871 - Ernest Rutherford 30 August
• 1887 - Erwin Schrödinger 12 August
• 1902 - Paul Dirac 8 August
• 1931 – Roger Penrose 8 August
• 1934 - Valery Bykovsky 2 August
• 1951 - Edward Witten 26 August
• 1959 – Koichi Tanaka 3 August

Deaths

• 2 August 1922 – Alexander Graham Bell
• 3 August 1942 – Richard Willstätter, Nobel laureate
• 28 August 2006 - Melvin Schwartz, Nobel laureate