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Science on the 8th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
08 Mar 1618 Johannes Kepler	science	Johannes Kepler (astronomy) May 15 – Johannes Kepler formulates the third law of planetary motion.	0
08 Mar 1641 Xu Xiake	science	death Xu Xiake Xu Xiake, Chinese explorer and geographer (born 1587)	0
08 Mar 1712 John Fothergill	science	birth John Fothergill John Fothergill, English physician (died 1780)	0
08 Mar 1717 Abraham Darby I	science	death Abraham Darby I Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (born 1678)	0
08 Mar 1787 Karl Ferdinand von Graefe	science	birth Karl Ferdinand von Graefe Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (died 1840), Polish-born German surgeon.	0
08 Mar 1804 Alvan Clark	science	birth Alvan Clark Alvan Clark, American telescope manufacturer (died 1887)	0
08 Mar 1879 Otto Hahn	science	birth Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (died 1968), German physicist and winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	0
08 Mar 1887 Connecticut	science	Connecticut (technology) Everett Horton of Connecticut patents a fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes.	0
08 Mar 1906 Henry Baker Tristram	science	death Henry Baker Tristram Henry Baker Tristram (born 1822), English ornithologist.	0
08 Mar 1914 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich	science	birth Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (died 1987), Russian astrophysicist.	0
08 Mar 1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin	science	death Ferdinand von Zeppelin Ferdinand von Zeppelin (born 1838), founder of the Zeppelin airship company.	0
08 Mar 1923 Johannes Diderik van der Waals	science	death Johannes Diderik van der Waals Johannes Diderik van der Waals (born 1837), physicist.	0
08 Mar 1928 Gerald Bull	science	birth Gerald Bull Gerald Bull (killed 1990), Canadian ballistics engineer.	0
08 Mar 1934 Sodium thiopental	science	Sodium thiopental (physiology and medic) Sodium thiopental, the first intravenous anesthetic, synthesized by Ernest H. Volwiler with Donalee L. Tabern of Abbott Laboratories, is first administered to human subjects.	0
08 Mar 1946 Frederick W. Lanchester	science	death Frederick W. Lanchester Frederick W. Lanchester (born 1868), automotive engineer.	0
08 Mar 1986 Suisei	science	Suisei (astronomy and space ) Japanese spacecraft Suisei flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.	0
08 Mar 1997 Complete solar eclipse	science	Complete solar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Complete solar eclipse.	0
08 Mar 2002 bubble fusion	science	bubble fusion (physics) Claims regarding bubble fusion, in which a table-top apparatus is reported as producing small-scale fusion in a liquid undergoing acoustic cavitation, are published.	0

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