Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 9

March 9:

 * 1454 - Birth of Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)


 * 1564 - Birth of David Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1617)


 * 1758 - Birth of Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (d. 1828)


 * 1851 - Death of Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)


 * 1887 - Birth of Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)


 * 1923 - Birth of Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry


 * 1932 - The first Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company


 * 1954 - Death of Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)


 * 1954  - Death of V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)


 * 1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins


 * 2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn