Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 22

March 22:

 * 1868 - Birth of Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)


 * 1840 - Death of Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)


 * 1895 - First display (a private screening) of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumière


 * 1931 - Birth of Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate


 * 1941 - Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity