March 15th
1713 - Birth of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer
1813 - Birth of John Snow, English physician
1854 - Birth of Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate
1890 - Birth of Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician
1898 - Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist
1920 - Birth of E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1930 - Birth of Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1962 - Death of Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
2004 - Death of Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist
2004 - Death of John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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