Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 2
Appearance
- 1621 - Death of Thomas Harriot, English astronomer
- 1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
- 1862 - Birth of William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)
- 1897 - Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains patent for radio in London
- 1906 - Birth of Hans Bethe, German-born nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1914 - Birth of Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)
- 1946 - Birth of Richard Axel, American scientist, Nobel laureate