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Science Facts - March Month

1 March 1910 English Chemist John Porter Martin (Co-winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography) was born
4 March 1774 First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
6 March 1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
7 March 1938 American Biologist David Baltimore (Co-winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell) was born.
8 March 1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
8 March 1879 German Chemist Otto Hahn (Winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei) was born.
8 March 1886 American Chemist Edward Calvin Kendall (Co-winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effect) was born
9 March 1923 Austrian born physicist Walter Kohn (Co-winner of the 1998 Nobel prize in chemistry for his development of the density-functional theory) was born.
10  March 1923 American Nuclear Physicist Val Logsdon Fitch (Co winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons) was born.
12 March 1925 Japanese Physicist Leo Esaki ( Co- winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semi conductors) was born.
13 March 1899 American Physicist John Hasbrouck (Co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids) was born.
14 March 1854 German Scientist Paul Ehrlich (Co-winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their work on immunity) was born.
14 March 1879 German-born Physicist Albert Einstein (Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his service to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect) was born.
15 March 1930 Russian Physicist Zhores Ivanovick Alferov (Co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics) was born.
16 March 1789 German Physicist Georg Simon Ohm (Known for Ohm’s law) was born.
16 March 1918 American Physicist Frederick Reines (Co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino) was born.
19 March 1900 French Physicist Frederic Joliot (Co-winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of induced radioactivity) was born.
19 March 1943 Mexican Chemist Mario J. Molina (Co-winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the role of CFCs in ozone depletion) was born.
21 March 1932 American Chemist Walter Gilbert (Co-winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids) was born.
22 March 1868 American Physicist Robert Millikan (Winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect) was born.
23 March 1881 German Chemist Hermann Staudinger (Winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry) was born.
28 March 1930 American Physicist Jerome Isaac Friedman (Co-winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics) was born.
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