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Science on the 12th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
12 Mar 1584 Louis de Foix	science	Louis de Foix (technology) Louis de Foix begins construction of Cordouan lighthouse on the Gironde estuary.	0
12 Mar 1784 William Buckland	science	birth William Buckland William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist (died 1856)	0
12 Mar 1790 John Frederic Daniell	science	birth John Frederic Daniell John Frederic Daniell, English chemist and physicist (died 1845)	0
12 Mar 1812 Joseph Prestwich	science	birth Joseph Prestwich Joseph Prestwich, English geologist (died 1896)	0
12 Mar 1824 Gustav Kirchhoff	science	birth Gustav Kirchhoff Gustav Kirchhoff (died 1887), physicist.	0
12 Mar 1835 Simon Newcomb	science	birth Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb (died 1909), Canadian mathematician and astronomer.	0
12 Mar 1838 William Perkin	science	birth William Perkin William Perkin (died 1907), chemist.	0
12 Mar 1857 Elizabeth Blackwell	science	Elizabeth Blackwell (medicine) Elizabeth Blackwell opens the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children.	0
12 Mar 1864 W. H. R. Rivers	science	birth W. H. R. Rivers W. H. R. Rivers (died 1922), English psychiatrist.	0
12 Mar 1870 Charles Xavier Thomas	science	death Charles Xavier Thomas Charles Xavier Thomas (born 1785), French inventor of the first mass-produced calculator.	0
12 Mar 1889 Almon B. Strowger	science	Almon B. Strowger (technology) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, files a patent in the United States for an automatic telephone exchange using the Strowger switch.	0
12 Mar 1898 Johann Balmer	science	death Johann Balmer Johann Balmer (born 1825), Swiss mathematician.	0
12 Mar 1935 Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin	science	death Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin (born 1858), physicist.	0
12 Mar 1966 Sydney Camm	science	death Sydney Camm Sydney Camm (born 1893), English aircraft designer.	0
12 Mar 1973 David Lack	science	death David Lack David Lack (b. 1910), English ornithologist	0

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