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Science on the 17th of March in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
17 Mar 1704 Menno, Baron van Coehoorn	science	death Menno, Baron van Coehoorn Menno, Baron van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (born 1641)	0
17 Mar 1733 Carsten Niebuhr	science	birth Carsten Niebuhr Carsten Niebuhr, Danish cartographer, surveyor and traveller (died 1815)	0
17 Mar 1741 William Withering	science	birth William Withering William Withering, English botanist, geologist, chemist and physician who discovered digitalis (died 1799)	0
17 Mar 1768 William Cookworthy	science	William Cookworthy (chemistry) William Cookworthy is granted a patent for the manufacture of porcelain from kaolinite in England,	0
17 Mar 1771 Chester Moore Hall	science	death Chester Moore Hall Chester Moore Hall, English scientific instrument maker (born 1703)	0
17 Mar 1782 Daniel Bernoulli	science	death Daniel Bernoulli Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician (born 1700)	0
17 Mar 1828 James Edward Smith	science	death James Edward Smith James Edward Smith (born 1759), English botanist.	0
17 Mar 1834 Gottlieb Daimler	science	birth Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Daimler (died 1900), engineer and automotive pioneer.	0
17 Mar 1842 Rosina Heikel	science	birth Rosina Heikel Rosina Heikel (died 1929), physician.	0
17 Mar 1845 Stephen Perry	science	Stephen Perry (chemistry) Stephen Perry patents the rubber band in England.	0
17 Mar 1846 Friedrich Bessel	science	death Friedrich Bessel Friedrich Bessel (born 1784), German mathematician.	0
17 Mar 1853 Claude Bernard	science	Claude Bernard (biology) Claude Bernard presents his doctoral thesis describing the glycogenetic function of the liver.	0
17 Mar 1853 Christian Doppler	science	death Christian Doppler Christian Doppler (born 1803), Austrian mathematician and discoverer of the Doppler effect.	0
17 Mar 1870 Horace Donisthorpe	science	birth Horace Donisthorpe Horace Donisthorpe (died 1951), English entomologist.	0
17 Mar 1910 Smithsonian Institution	science	Smithsonian Institution (institutions) The Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Building, later the National Museum of Natural History, opens its doors to the public in Washington, D.C.	0
17 Mar 1956 Irène Joliot-Curie	science	death Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie (born 1897), scientist.	0
17 Mar 1958 Vanguard 1	science	Vanguard 1 (astronomy and space ) Vanguard 1 becomes the first of its program to enter space, after three failed attempts.	0
17 Mar 1979 Henry Aaron Hill	science	death Henry Aaron Hill Henry Aaron Hill (b. 1915), American fluorocarbon chemist, first African American president of the American Chemical Society.	0

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