March 17th
1764 - Death of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1780 - Birth of Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist
1782 - Death of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician
1834 - Birth of Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor
1846 - Death of Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer
1853 - Death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician
1870 - Birth of Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist
1881 - Birth of Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1950 - Researchers announce the creation of element #98, "Californium".
1956 - Death of Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate
1983 - Death of Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate
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