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Science on the 15th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
15 Mar 1660 Olof Rudbeck the Younger	science	birth Olof Rudbeck the Younger Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish naturalist (died 1740)	0
15 Mar 1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille	science	birth Nicolas Louis de Lacaille Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (baptized December 28; died 1762)	0
15 Mar 1746 Giovanni Battista Venturi	science	birth Giovanni Battista Venturi Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist after whom the Venturi tube is named (died 1822)	0
15 Mar 1754 Archibald Menzies	science	birth Archibald Menzies Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (died 1842)	0
15 Mar 1771 Society of Civil Engineers	science	Society of Civil Engineers Society of Civil Engineers first meets (in London), the world's oldest engineering society.	0
15 Mar 1812 Luddites	science	Luddites (technology) Luddites attack wool processing factory of Frank Vickerman in West Yorkshire.	0
15 Mar 1854 Emil Adolf von Behring	science	birth Emil Adolf von Behring Emil Adolf von Behring (died 1917), German physiologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.	0
15 Mar 1868 Grace Chisholm Young	science	birth Grace Chisholm Young Grace Chisholm Young (died 1944), mathematician.	0
15 Mar 1888 Squire Whipple	science	death Squire Whipple Squire Whipple (born 1804), civil engineer.	0
15 Mar 1891 Jesse W. Reno	science	Jesse W. Reno (technology) Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator at Coney Beach in the United States.	0
15 Mar 1897 James Joseph Sylvester	science	death James Joseph Sylvester James Joseph Sylvester (born 1814), English mathematician.	0
15 Mar 1898 Henry Bessemer	science	death Henry Bessemer Henry Bessemer (born 1813), English inventor of the Bessemer process for steelmaking.	0
15 Mar 1915 Laurent Schwartz	science	birth Laurent Schwartz Laurent Schwartz (died 2002), French mathematician.	0
15 Mar 1920 E. Donnall Thomas	science	birth E. Donnall Thomas E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate.	0
15 Mar 1930 Martin Karplus	science	birth Martin Karplus Martin Karplus, Austrian-born theoretical chemist and Nobel Prize winner.	0
15 Mar 1985 Internet	science	Internet (computer science) The first commercial Internet domain name, in the top-level domain .com, is registered in the name symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.	0
15 Mar 1998 Benjamin Spock	science	death Benjamin Spock Benjamin Spock (b. 1903), pediatrician, writer.	0
15 Mar 2004 trans-Neptunian object	science	trans-Neptunian object (astronomy) Astronomers announce the discovery last year of trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna, one of the most distant objects in the Solar System.	0

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