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||1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
||1535 – Georg Tannstetter, Austrian mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1482)
|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1569: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] make improved astronomical observations.
||1656 – Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1725)
||1698 – Prokop Diviš, Czech priest, scientist and inventor (d. 1765)
||1753 – Benjamin Thompson, American-French physicist and politician, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1814)
||1773 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator (d. 1838)


File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1773: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] born.  He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
File:Nathaniel Bowditch.jpg|link=Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|1773: American captain and mathematician [[Nathaniel Bowditch (nonfiction)|Nathaniel Bowditch]] born.  He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book ''The New American Practical Navigator'', first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1792: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].


File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1793: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1793: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
||1793 – John Mudge, English physician and engineer (b. 1721)
||1797 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician (b. 1726)
||Wolfgang von Kempelen (d. 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine. Pic.
||1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.


File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).
File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).
||1859 – Adolf Hurwitz, Jewish German-Swiss mathematician and academic (d. 1919)
||Antonio Maria Bordoni (d. 26 March 1860) was an Italian mathematician who did research on mathematical analysis, geometry, and mechanics.
||1875 – Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1922)
||1884 – Georges Imbert, French chemical engineer and inventor (d. 1950)
||Theodore Samuel Motzkin (26 March 1908 – 15 December 1970) was an Israeli-American mathematician.
File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1909: Mathematician [[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]] uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1910 – Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
||1893 – James Bryant Conant, American chemist, academic, and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany (d. 1978)
||1911 – Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)


File:Paul Erdős.jpg|link=Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|Paul Erdős]] born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.
File:Paul Erdős.jpg|link=Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|Paul Erdős]] born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.


||1914 – Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 1995)
||1916 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
||1922 – Oscar Sala, Italian-Brazilian physicist and academic (d. 2010)
||1922 – Guido Stampacchia, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1978) known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.
||1932 – Henry M. Leland, American machinist, inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founded of Cadillac and Lincoln (b. 1843)
||József Kürschák (d. 26 March 1933) was a Hungarian mathematician noted for his work on trigonometry and for his creation of the theory of valuations. He proved that every valued field can be embedded into a complete valued field which is algebraically closed.
||1938 – Anthony James Leggett, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate b.
||1940 – Wilhelm Anderson, German-Estonian astrophysicist (b. 1880)
||1953 – Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Pic.
||1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
||Edward Uhler Condon (d. March 26, 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. The Franck–Condon principle and the Slater–Condon rules are co-named after him.
||1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
||2015 – Friedrich L. Bauer, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1924)


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Latest revision as of 09:17, 26 March 2022

  • 1773: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.

    1773: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.

  • 1793: Physician and engineer John Mudge dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".

    1793: Physician and engineer John Mudge dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".

  • 1851: Mathematician George Chrystal born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

    1851: Mathematician George Chrystal born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).

  • 1913: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.

    1913: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.

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