Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 30

March 30:

• 240 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

• 1526 - Death of Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)

• 1559 - Death of Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)

• 1783 - Death of William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)

• 1842 - Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long

• 1858 - Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser

• 1910 - Birth of Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)

• 1949 - Death of Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)