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George Elliot
George Elliot, an English manufacturer, was born Mar. 18, 1814. Elliot lived out a classic rags-to-riches story. His father worked in a coal ...
William Hayward Pickering
William Hayward Pickering, a New Zealand-born American rocket engineer and administrator, died Mar. 15, 2004, at the age of 93. After growing up ...
Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist, sculptor, and engineer, was born Mar. 14, 1948, in Scheveningen, in the Netherlands. Since 1990, Jansen has been ...
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley, an English (and later American) religious dissenter and natural philosopher, was born Mar. 13, 1733, in West Yorkshire. Born...
Luca Gaurico
Luca Gaurico, an Italian astrologer, was born Mar. 12, 1475. Astrology was a very competitive profession in Renaissance Italy, as princes and ...
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming, a Scottish bacteriologist, died Mar. 11, 1955, at age 73. Fleming is about as famous as a scientist can get. Nearly everyone ...
William Cowper
William Cowper, an English surgeon and anatomist, died Mar. 8, 1709, at the age of about 45. In 1698, Cowper published The Anatomy of Humane ...
Royal Institution of Great Britain
The Royal Institution of Great Britain (usually called the RI) was founded Mar. 7, 1799, at the home of Sir Joseph Banks, the President of the ...
Henry Oldenburg
Henry Oldenburg, a German/English diplomat turned professional correspondent, was born around 1618, in Bremen. Oldenburg undertook several ...
Gianfrancesco Sagredo
Giovanni Francesco Sagredo, a Venetian nobleman, diplomat, mathematician, and ardent foe of the Jesuits, died Mar. 5, 1620, at the age of 48 or ...
George Gabb
George Hugh Gabb, a British collector of scientific instruments, is a mystery man. He died in 1948, but I could find no date of birth or death ...
Karl Zimmer
Karl Günter Zimmer, a German radiation physicist interested in the effects of radiation on organisms, died Feb. 29, 1988, at the age of 76. In ...
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