Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 7

March 7:

 * 1625 - Death of Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)


 * 1765 - Birth of Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)


 * 1788 - Birth of Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)


 * 1792 - Birth of John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)


 * 1799 - The Royal Institution is founded


 * 1837 - Birth of Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)


 * 1849 - Birth of Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)


 * 1857 - Birth of Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)


 * 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465)


 * 1904 - Death of Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)


 * 1922 - Birth of Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)


 * 1926 - The first transatlantic telephone call was made from New York City to London


 * 1938 - Birth of David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate


 * 1954 - Death of Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)


 * 1996 - The Hubble Space Telescope makes the first pictures of the surface of Pluto


 * 1997 - Death of Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)