Today in Science

March 4th

1675 - John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.

1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.

1822 - Birth of Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician

1835 - Birth of John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist

1847 - Birth of Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist

1853 - Death of Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist

1854 - Birth of Napier Shaw, British meteorologist

1859 - Birth of Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist

1862 - Birth of Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist

1871 - Birth of Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician

1877 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone

1881 - Birth of Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist

1882 - Britain's first electric trams run.

1889 - Birth of Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician

1903 - Birth of William C. Boyd, American immunochemist

1904 - Birth of George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist

1910 - Death of Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist

1914 - Birth of Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect

1916 - Birth of Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist

1923 - Birth of Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer

1927 - Death of Ira Remsen American chemist

1934 - Birth of Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist

1952 - Death of Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate

1967 - Death of Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician

1973 - Death of Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy

1976 - Death of Walter H. Schottky, German physicist

1977 - The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory,

1979 - Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings.

1997 - Death of Robert H. Dicke, American physicist

2004 - Death of George Pake, American physicist

2006 - Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response is received.