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March 3rd

1703 - Death of Robert Hooke, English scientist

1800 - Birth of Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist

1845 - Birth of Georg Cantor, German mathematician

1918 - Birth of Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1988 - Death of Sewall Wright, American evolutionary biologist

1999 - Death of Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

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