Today in Science

March 10th

1585 - Death of Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist

1628 - Birth of Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician

1670 - Death of Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist

1709 - Birth of Georg Steller, German naturalist

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call.

1891 - Almon Strowger patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

1923 - Birth of Val Logsdon Fitch, Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1942 - Death of William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1966 - Death of Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1977 - Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

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