March 9th
1564 - Birth of David Fabricius, German astronomer
1758 - Birth of Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist
1851 - Death of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist
1900 - Birth of Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer
1923 - Birth of Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1934 - Birth of Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut
1954 - Death of Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer
1974 - Death of Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1983 - Death of Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
2006 - Liquid water discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
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2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
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1564 - David Fabricius, German astronomer
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1904 - Birth of Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist
1923 - Birth of David H. Hubel, Canadian neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 - Birth of Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
1936 - Death of Ivan Pavlov,…
March 17th
1764 - Death of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1780 - Birth of Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist
1782 - Death of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician
1834 - Birth of Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor…
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1673 - Richard Mead, English physician
1722 - Richard Brocklesby, English physician
1858 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize Laureate
1905 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist
1912 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer
1926 - Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel…