August 3:
(1) (1918) American chemist Sidney Gottlieb is born. He is most remembered for his role in MKUltra, an illegal program run by the CIA which included administering drugs like LSD and marijuana on subjects.
(2) (1954) President of University College London Michael Arthur is born. His research has focused on the pathophysiology of liver cirrhosis.
(3) (1959) Japanese engineer Koichi Tanaka is born. He shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a new method for mass spectrometry to detect macromolecules, such as proteins.
