Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 26

March 26:

 * 1516 - Birth of Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)


 * 1535 - Death of Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)


 * 1679 - Death of Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)


 * 1698 - Birth of Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)


 * 1753 - Birth of Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)


 * 1773 - Birth of Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigation expert (d. 1838)


 * 1797 - Death of James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)


 * 1859 - Birth of Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)


 * 1875 - Birth of Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)


 * 1910 - Death of Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)


 * 1911 - Birth of Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003)


 * 1913 - Birth of Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)


 * 1916 - Birth of Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)


 * 1922 - Birth of Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist


 * 1938 - Birth of Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate


 * 1941 - Birth of Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist


 * 1951 - Birth of Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel laureate


 * 1953 - Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine