Today in Science (0314)

Events

1942 - John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.

Births

1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer

1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist

1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

More like this

March 14th 1835 - Birth of Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer 1854 - Birth of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate 1879 - Birth of Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1882 - Birth of Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician 1995 - Death of William…
Events 1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. 1902 - Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride. Births 1745 - Philippe Pinel, French physician 1904 - George Stibitz, American scientist 1918 - Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1927…
Births 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist 1724 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer 1745 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician 1851 - Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval, French physicist 1860 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician 1916 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist;…
Events 1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. 1894 - Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. 1981 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn 1989 - Voyager 2…

... and it's Pi Day!

By Evan Berkowitz (not verified) on 13 Mar 2008 #permalink