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By jlynch on March 7, 2007.

March 7th

1625 - Death of Johann Bayer, German astronomer

1788 - Birth of Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist

1792 - Birth of John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer

1837 - Birth of Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer

1857 - Birth of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1904 - Death of Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist

1922 - Birth of Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician

1928 - Death of Robert Abbe, American surgeon

1938 - Birth of David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1958 - Birth of Alan Hale, American astronomer

1973 - Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Luboš Kohoutek.

1997 - Death of Edward Mills Purcell, Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

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I know my Art History Major-ness is going to come through in this comment, but i just wanted to add: John Herschel may have been a mathematician and astronomer, but he also did a lot of stuff for photography, including coining the name "photography" and "positive" & "negative" (as in the negative of a photo, and the positive print). Just FYI :)