Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 1
- 1744 - Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829)
- 1779 - Birth of Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
- 1818 - Birth of Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889)
- 1828 - Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic
- 1885 - Birth of George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
- 1881 - Birth of Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940)
- 1889 - Birth of Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979)
- 1924 - Birth of Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1945 - Birth of Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1967 - Death of Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1996 - Death of Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1897)
- 2004 - Death of Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)