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By jlynch on March 16, 2007.

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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