March 6th
1787 - Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist
1866 - Death of William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science
1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist
1939 - Death of Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician
2005 - Death of Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
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