Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 20

March 20:

 * 1735 - Birth of Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)


 * 1878 - Death of Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)


 * 1879 - Birth of Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)


 * 1899 - Death of Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)


 * 1916 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity


 * 1933 - Birth of Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet


 * 1938 - Birth of Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician, Fields Medalist


 * 1940 - Death of Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)


 * 1983 - Death of Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)


 * 1993 - Death of Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)