Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 3

May 3
 * 1695 - Birth of Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (d. 1771)
 * 1713 - Birth of Alexis Clairault, French mathematician (d. 1765)
 * 1779 - Death of John Winthrop, American astronomer (b. 1714)
 * 1860 - Birth of John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist (d. 1936)
 * 1860  - Birth of Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician (d. 1940)
 * 1874 - Birth of V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (d. 1954)
 * 1892 - Birth of George Paget Thomson, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
 * 1902 - Birth of Alfred Kastler, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
 * 1933 - Birth of Steven Weinberg, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1988 - Death of Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)