Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 3

December 3:

 * 1776 – Birth of Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
 * 1842 - Birth of Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist (d. 1911)
 * 1886 - Birth of Manne Siegbahn, Nobel laureate (d. 1978)
 * 1888 – Death of Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816)
 * 1900 – Birth of Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
 * 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory
 * 1933 – Birth of Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
 * 1967 - First successful heart transplant carried out by Christiaan Barnard


 * 1982 - A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin
 * 1984 – Death of Vladimir Rokhlin, Russian mathematician (b. 1919)