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By jlynch on March 25, 2007.

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Events

1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer III.

Births

1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist

1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist

1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician

1875 - Max Abraham, German physicist

1905 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist

1911 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1913 - Paul ErdÅs, Hungarian mathematician

1916 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist

1951 - Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist

1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist, considered a "Father of Modern Geology" and discoverer of Hutton's Unconformity (above)

1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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