Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 3

September 3:

 * 1710 - Birth of Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (d. 1784)


 * 1803 - English scientist John Dalton started using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements


 * 1869 - Birth of Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1930)


 * 1899 - Birth of Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)


 * 1905 - Birth of Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)


 * 1938 - Birth of Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate


 * 1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars


 * 2005 - Death of Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1913)