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||43 BC – Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
||Johann Baptist Homann (b. 20 March 1664) was a German geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas.
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1726/27: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] dies. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1726/27: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] dies. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
||Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman (KVO) (b. 20 March 1735) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species.
||Martin(us) van Marum (b. 20 March 1750) was a Dutch physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen. Van Marum introduced modern chemistry in the Netherlands after the theories of Lavoisier, and several scientific applications for general use. He became famous for his demonstrations with instruments, most notable the Large electricity machine, to show statical electricity and chemical experiments while curator for the Teylers Museum.
||1834 – Charles William Eliot, American mathematician and academic (d. 1926)
||Franz Mertens (b. 20 March 1840) was a Polish mathematician.
File:Ernst Schroeder.jpg|link=Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and logician [[Ernst Schröder (nonfiction)|Ernst Schröder]] systematizes various systems of formal logic in a successful effort to prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Julius Robert Mayer.jpg|link=Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|1878: Physician and physicist [[Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|Julius Robert von Mayer]] dies. In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. His achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year.
File:Julius Robert Mayer.jpg|link=Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|1878: Physician and physicist [[Julius von Mayer (nonfiction)|Julius Robert von Mayer]] dies. In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. His achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year.
||Maud Leonora Menten (b. March 20, 1879) was a Canadian physician-scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry. Her name is associated with the famous Michaelis–Menten equation in biochemistry. Pic.
||1884 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1966)
||Carl Anton Bjerknes (d. 20 March 1903) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics.


File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1914: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] develops a new drum fill which anticipates his general theory of relativity.
File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1914: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] develops a new drum fill which anticipates his general theory of relativity.
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File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1915: Theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] publishes his general theory of relativity.
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1915: Theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] publishes his general theory of relativity.


||1921 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)
File:Charles Wright Mills.jpg|link=C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|1962: Sociologist and author [[C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|C. Wright Mills]] dies. He was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
 
||1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
 
||1928 – James P. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (d. 2013) known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral student at Columbia University under the supervision of C. H. Townes, development of the quantal equivalent of Shannon’s information capacity formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap (together with A. Ashkin) in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the Gordon-Haus effect in soliton transmission, together with H. A. Haus in 1986. Pic.
 
||1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 
||1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
 
||1935 – Bettye Washington Greene, American chemist (d. 1995)
 
||1939 – Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (d. 2014)
 
File:Game of Chance rough draft excerpt.jpg|link=Game of Chance (Gnomon Chronicles)|1961: Early rough draft of ''[[Game of Chance (Gnomon Chronicles)|Game of Chance]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of encrypted data.
 
File:C. Wright Mills.jpg|link=C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|1962: Sociologist and author [[C. Wright Mills (nonfiction)|C. Wright Mills]] dies. He was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
 
||1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
 
||1983 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic born.  He was one of the creators of modern analytic number theory,
 
||1993 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 
||Børge Christian Jessen (d. 20 March 1993) was a Danish mathematician best known for his work in analysis, specifically on the Riemann zeta function, and in geometry, specifically on Hilbert's third problem.
 
||Petr Vopěnka (d. 20 March 2015) was a Czech mathematician. In the early seventies, he developed alternative set theory. He will be known for Vopěnka's principle. Pic.


File:Ursa Nano.jpg|link=Ursa Nano (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Ursa Nano (nonfiction)|Ursa Nano]]'' is declared Picture of the Day.
File:Polykarp Kusch (1955).jpg|link=Polycarp Kusch (nonfiction)|1993: Physicist and academic [[Polycarp Kusch (nonfiction)|Polykarp Kusch]] dies. Kusch made a accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics; he was award the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for this accomplishment.


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Latest revision as of 08:19, 21 March 2022

  • 1726/27: Isaac Newton dies. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

    1726/27: Isaac Newton dies. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

  • 1878: Physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer dies. In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. His achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year.

    1878: Physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer dies. In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. His achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year.

  • 1914: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein develops a new drum fill which anticipates his general theory of relativity.

    1914: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein develops a new drum fill which anticipates his general theory of relativity.

  • 1915: Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

    1915: Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

  • 1962: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills dies. He was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.

    1962: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills dies. He was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.

  • 1993: Physicist and academic Polykarp Kusch dies. Kusch made a accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics; he was award the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for this accomplishment.

    1993: Physicist and academic Polykarp Kusch dies. Kusch made a accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics; he was award the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for this accomplishment.

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