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1 March 1910 English Chemist Archer John Porter Martin (Co-winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography) was born
4 March 1847 Austrian Chemist Karl Bayer (Invented the bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite, essential to this day to the economical production of aluminium) was born.
7 March 1938 French Physicist Albert Fert (Co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance ) was born.
7 March 1944 American Geneticist Michael Rosbash  (Co-winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm) was born.
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 Bio-chemist Edward Calvin Kendall (Co-winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects) 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.
11 March 1936 German virologist Harald zur Hausen (Co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer) was born.
10 March 1941 American Biologist Bio-chemist George P. Smith (Co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the phage display of peptide and antibodies) 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 semiconductors superconductors) was born.
13 March 1899 American Physicist John Hasbrouck van Vleck (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.
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.
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.
24  March 1917 British Molecular Biologist John Kendrew (Co- winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies of the structures of globular proteins) was born.
26  March 1951 American Physicist Carl Wieman (Co- winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates) was born.
27  March 1847 German Chemist Otto Wallach (Winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pineer work in the field of alicyclic compounds) 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.
28 March 1949 American Biologist and Geneticist Michael W. Young (Co-winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm) was born.
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