Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 8

March 8:

• 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion

• 1746 - Birth of André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)

• 1879 - Birth of Otto Hahn, German Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

• 1886 - Birth of Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)

• 1914 - Birth of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)

• 1934 - A photograph by astronomer Edwin Hubble shows there are as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in the Milky Way

• 1979 - The first extraterrestrial volcano is discovered on Io, a satellite of the planet Jupiter

• 1988 - Death of Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)

• 2005 - Death of César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)