Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 15

March 15:

 * 1713 - Birth of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)


 * 1790 - Birth of Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)


 * 1813 - Birth of John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)


 * 1821 - Birth of Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)


 * 1821  - Birth of Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)


 * 1868 - Birth of Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)


 * 1890 - Birth of Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)


 * 1898 - Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)


 * 1930 - Birth of Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1951 - Death of John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)


 * 1962 - Death of Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)


 * 1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com)


 * 2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar System so far observed


 * 2004  - Death of Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)


 * 2004  - Death of John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)