March 20th
Events
1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
Births
1735 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist
1879 - Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist
1895 - Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist
1904 - B. F. Skinner, American psychologist
Deaths
1727 O.S. - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist
1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist
1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist
1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist
1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician
1993 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate
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