Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 27

March 27:

• 1817 - Birth of Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)

• 1845 - Birth of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

• 1847 - Birth of Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

• 1850 - Death of Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)

• 1897 - Birth of Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)

• 1910 - Death of Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)

• 1942 - Birth of John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• 1967 - Death of Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)

• 1970 - The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight

• 2007 - Death of Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)