Today in Science

March 1st

1597 - Birth of Jean-Charles de la Faille, Belgian mathematician

1610 - Birth of John Pell, English mathematician

1697 - Death of Francesco Redi, Italian physician

1862 - Death of Peter Barlow, English mathematician

1884 - Death of Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician

1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity

1910 - Birth of Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1911 - Death of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1926 - Birth of Seymour Papert, South African mathematician and artificial intelligence researcher

1943 - Birth of Richard H. Price, American physicist

1966 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

1966 - Death of Fritz Houtermans, German physicist

1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists.

1995 - Death of Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine