Today in Science

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