Today in Science

March 8th

1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.

1712 - Birth of John Fothergill, English physician

1886 - Birth of Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1914 - Birth of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist

1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.

1923 - Death of Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel Prize laureate

2005 - Death of César Lattes, Brazilian physicist