Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 15

March 15:

• 1713 - Birth of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)

• 1790 - Birth of Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)

• 1813 - Birth of John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)

• 1821 - Birth of Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)

• 1821 - Birth of Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)

• 1868 - Birth of Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)

• 1890 - Birth of Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)

• 1898 - Death of Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)

• 1930 - Birth of Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1951 - Death of John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)

• 1962 - Death of Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

• 1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com)

• 2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar System so far observed

• 2004 - Death of Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)

• 2004 - Death of John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)