Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 10

March 10:

 * 1585 - Death of Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)


 * 1670 - Death of Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)


 * 1709 - Birth of Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)


 * 1769 - Birth of Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840)


 * 1801 - First census in Great Britain


 * 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching


 * 1923 - Birth of Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1942 - Death of William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)


 * 1966 - Death of Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)