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26 Mar 1516
Conrad Gessner |
birth Conrad Gessner Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (died 1565) |
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26 Mar 1609
John Dee |
death John Dee John Dee, English alchemist, astrologer and mathematician (born 1527) |
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26 Mar 1698
Václav Prokop Diviš |
birth Václav Prokop Diviš Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (died 1765) |
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26 Mar 1753
Benjamin Thompson |
birth Benjamin Thompson Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Anglo-American physicist (died 1814) |
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26 Mar 1770
First voyage of James Cook |
First voyage of James Cook (exploration) First voyage of James Cook: English explorer Captain James Cook and his crew aboard HMS Endeavour complete the circumnavigation of New Zealand. |
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26 Mar 1797
James Hutton |
death James Hutton James Hutton, Scottish geologist (born 1726) |
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26 Mar 1812
earthquake |
earthquake (geophysics) An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela. |
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26 Mar 1881
Lovisa Åhrberg |
death Lovisa Åhrberg Lovisa Åhrberg (born 1801), Swedish surgeon. |
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26 Mar 1895
Scottish |
Scottish (chemistry) Scottish chemist William Ramsay isolates helium on Earth by treating the mineral cleveite. These samples are identified as helium by Norman Lockyer and William Crookes. It is independently isolated from cleveite in the same year by Per Teodor Cleve and Abraham Langlet in Uppsala, Sweden, who determine its atomic weight. |
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26 Mar 1898
South Africa |
South Africa (biology) The Sabi Game Reserve in South Africa, the first officially designated game reserve, is created. |
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26 Mar 1911
Bernard Katz |
birth Bernard Katz Bernard Katz (died 2003), German-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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26 Mar 1913
Paul Erdős |
birth Paul Erdős Paul Erdős (died 1996), Hungarian mathematician. |
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26 Mar 1916
Christian B. Anfinsen |
birth Christian B. Anfinsen Christian B. Anfinsen (died 1995), American biochemist, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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26 Mar 1918
Marie Stopes |
Marie Stopes (physiology and medic) Dr. Marie Stopes publishes her influential book Married Love in the U.K., following it with Wise Parenthood, a treatise on birth control. |
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26 Mar 1920
William Chester Minor |
death William Chester Minor William Chester Minor, American surgeon (born 1834). |
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26 Mar 1941
Richard Dawkins |
birth Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist. |
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26 Mar 1946
Gerhard Heilman |
death Gerhard Heilman Gerhard Heilman (born 1859), paleo-ornithologist. |
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26 Mar 1953
Jonas Salk |
Jonas Salk (medicine and human s) Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine. |
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26 Mar 1958
Explorer 3 |
Explorer 3 (astronomy and space ) Explorer 3 is launched into orbit. |
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26 Mar 1959
Jersey |
Jersey (biology) Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park) established by Gerald Durrell. |
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26 Mar 1987
Gwyn Macfarlane |
death Gwyn Macfarlane Gwyn Macfarlane (b. 1907), British hematologist. |
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26 Mar 1996
David Packard |
death David Packard David Packard (b. 1912), American electrical engineer. |
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26 Mar 1999
Melissa worm |
Melissa worm (computer science) The Melissa worm attacks the Internet. |
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