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Science on the 3rd of March in history

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Date	Type	Text
03 Mar 1649 John Floyer	science	birth John Floyer John Floyer, English physician (died 1734)	0
03 Mar 1703 Robert Hooke	science	death Robert Hooke Robert Hooke, English scientist (born 1635)	0
03 Mar 1709 Andreas Sigismund Marggraf	science	birth Andreas Sigismund Marggraf Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, German chemist (died 1782)	0
03 Mar 1751 Pierre Prévost	science	birth Pierre Prévost Pierre Prévost, Swiss philosopher and physicist (died 1839)	0
03 Mar 1775 Richard Dunthorne	science	death Richard Dunthorne Richard Dunthorne, English astronomer (born 1711)	0
03 Mar 1808 Johan Christian Fabricius	science	death Johan Christian Fabricius Johan Christian Fabricius, Danish entomologist (born 1745).	0
03 Mar 1831 George Pullman	science	birth George Pullman George Pullman (died 1897), inventor.	0
03 Mar 1838 George William Hill	science	birth George William Hill George William Hill (died 1914), astronomer.	0
03 Mar 1845 Georg Cantor	science	birth Georg Cantor Georg Cantor (died 1918), mathematician.	0
03 Mar 1847 Alexander Graham Bell	science	birth Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (died 1922)	0
03 Mar 1863 National Academy of Sciences	science	National Academy of Sciences (institutions) National Academy of Sciences incorporated in the United States.	0
03 Mar 1879 William Kingdon Clifford	science	death William Kingdon Clifford William Kingdon Clifford (born 1845), geometer.	0
03 Mar 1887 Anne Sullivan	science	Anne Sullivan (linguistics) Anne Sullivan begins to teach language to the deaf and blind Helen Keller.	0
03 Mar 1898 Emil Artin	science	birth Emil Artin Emil Artin (died 1962), Austrian-born mathematician.	0
03 Mar 1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics	science	National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (technology) The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA, is established in the United States.	0
03 Mar 1969 Elizabeth Laird	science	death Elizabeth Laird Elizabeth Laird (born 1874), Canadian physicist.	0
03 Mar 1999 Bertrand Piccard	science	Bertrand Piccard (aeronautics) Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones successfully complete a non-stop circumnavigation of the world in a hot air balloon.	0
03 Mar 2002 Roy Porter	science	death Roy Porter Roy Porter (b. 1946), medical historian.	0
03 Mar 2014 Joab Thomas	science	death Joab Thomas Joab Thomas, 81, American university administrator and scientist	0

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