Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 3

March 3:

• 1703 - Death of Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)

• 1800 - Birth of Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)

• 1845 - Birth of Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)

• 1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created

• 1917 - Birth of Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)

• 1988 - Death of Sewall Wright, American biologist (b. 1889)

• 1993 - Death of Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (b. 1906)

• 1999 - Death of Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)