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Science on the 7th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
07 Mar 1625 Johann Bayer	science	death Johann Bayer Johann Bayer, German uranographer (born 1572)	0
07 Mar 1746 André Michaux	science	birth André Michaux André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)	0
07 Mar 1765 Nicéphore Niépce	science	birth Nicéphore Niépce Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (died 1833)	0
07 Mar 1788 Antoine César Becquerel	science	birth Antoine César Becquerel Antoine César Becquerel, French scientist (died 1878)	0
07 Mar 1792 John Herschel	science	birth John Herschel John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)	0
07 Mar 1804 John Wedgwood	science	John Wedgwood (botany) John Wedgwood founds the Horticultural Society of London.	0
07 Mar 1831 Royal Astronomical Society	science	Royal Astronomical Society (astronomy) Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal Charter.	0
07 Mar 1837 Henry Draper	science	birth Henry Draper Henry Draper (died 1882), doctor, astronomer.	0
07 Mar 1849 Luther Burbank	science	birth Luther Burbank Luther Burbank (died 1926), American plant breeder.	0
07 Mar 1863 Charles Wilkins Short	science	death Charles Wilkins Short Charles Wilkins Short (b. 1794), American botanist.	0
07 Mar 1875 John Edward Gray	science	death John Edward Gray John Edward Gray (born 1800), taxonomist	0
07 Mar 1886 G. I. Taylor	science	birth G. I. Taylor G. I. Taylor, English physicist (died 1975)	0
07 Mar 1887 North Carolina State University	science	North Carolina State University (organizations) North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.	0
07 Mar 1912 Roald Amundsen	science	Roald Amundsen (exploration) Roald Amundsen announces in Hobart that his expedition reached the South Pole on last December 14.	0
07 Mar 1938 David Baltimore	science	birth David Baltimore David Baltimore, American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine	0
07 Mar 1973 Comet Kohoutek	science	Comet Kohoutek (astronomy and space ) Comet Kohoutek is discovered	0
07 Mar 1979 magnetar	science	magnetar (astronomy and space ) The largest magnetar (soft gamma repeater) event is recorded.	0
07 Mar 1997 Edward Mills Purcell	science	death Edward Mills Purcell Edward Mills Purcell (b. 1912), physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.	0
07 Mar 2000 W. D. Hamilton	science	death W. D. Hamilton W. D. Hamilton (b. 1936), English evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.	0

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