Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 3

April 3:

 * 1529 - Birth of Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)


 * 1683 - Birth of Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)


 * 1693 - Birth of George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)


 * 1715 - Birth of William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)


 * 1717 - Death of Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)


 * 1827 - Death of Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)


 * 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design


 * 1932 - Death of Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)


 * 1973 - The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States


 * 1998 - Death of Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)