Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 16

March 16:

• 1750 - Birth of Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (d. 1848)

• 1789 - Birth of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)

• 1794 - Birth of Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)

• 1846 - Birth of Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927)

• 1851 - Birth of Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)

• 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet

• 1905 - Birth of Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (d. 1986)

• 1918 - Birth of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

• 1925 - Birth of Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)

• 1926 - History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts

• 1992 - Death of Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)

• 1998 - Death of Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)