Anniversaries

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Mar

March 12, 1824 – Birth of Gustav Kirchhoff, investigated the emission of black body radiation and co-discovered caesium and rubidium

13
Mar

March 13, 1733 - Birth of the polymath Joseph Priestley, who discovers "dephlogisticated air"

14
Mar

March 14, 1879 - Einstein's birth

15
Mar

March 15, 1962 – Death of Arthur Compton, discoverer of the effect confirming that light has both wave and particle properties

16
Mar

March 16, 1789 – Birth of Georg Simon Ohm, the law bearing his name representing the true beginning of electrical circuit analysis

17
Mar

March 17, 1905 - Einstein published the first of his groundbreaking physics papers

17
Mar

March 17, 1956 - Death of Irène Joliot-Curie, shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of new radioactive elements

19
Mar

March 19, 1900 - Birth of Frédéric Joliot-Curie, co-discoverer of artificially induced radioactivity

19
Mar

March 19, 1987 – Death of Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of the wave nature of electrons

21
Mar

March 21, 1946 - Marguerite Perey submits her thesis on ‘L'élément 87: Actinium K’, known as Francium

22
Mar

March 22 - World Water Day

27
Mar

March 27, 1845 Röntgen and his mysterious rays

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