Famous people died in August - page 7

Raymond Octave Joseph Barre was French politician and economist

Irving Langmuir was an American chemist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry

Michel Jean-Pierre Debre was a French political leader who became the first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic

Betty Cuthbert was an Australian former athlete who had won four Olympic gold medals

Bruce Steel Kingsbury was an Australian soldier who was awarded the ‘Victoria Cross’ (VC), for his gallant actions during the ‘Battle of Isurava’

Eduard Buchner was a German chemist and a zymologist who won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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James Bartholomew ‘Bart’ Cummings was an Australian race horse trainer

Adolf von Baeyer was a well-known German chemist who synthesized indigo

Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist who played a prominent role in the development of the neutrino beam method

Paul Sabatier was a French organic chemist known for his research works in catalytic organic synthesis