James Hillier, (August 22, 1915 – January 15, 2007) who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope.
Month: August 2022
Werner Stengel (22 August 1936) is a German roller coaster designer and engineer.
Denis Papin (22 August 1647 – 26 August 1713) known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
X-15 Flight 91 was a 1963 American human spaceflight mission piloted by Joseph A Walker on August 22, 1963.
Wolfgang Paul (10 August 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a German physicist. He shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989.
10 August 1990- The Magellan Space Probe reaches Venus.
The Lunar Orbiter Robotic (Unmanned) Spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking Orbit on August 10, 1966.
Erwin Rudolf Josef was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist.
12 August, 1990- Sue the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson.
August 12, 1981 release of the IBM PC or Personal Computer.
Salvador Edward Luria (August 13, 1912 – February 6, 1991) won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969.
August 20, 1920 The First commercial Radio station, 8MK begins operations.
