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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Open today 4 PM - 11 PM
Portrait of Eugenius Warming in his twenties, carte de visite, Royal Library, Copenhagen (Wikimedia commons)
Eugenius Warming, a Danish botanist, died Apr. 2, 1924, at the age of 82. Warming was one of the founders of the modern science of ecology.
Pieter Vogelvormer, a Dutch naturalist, was born in The Hague on Apr. 1, 1608.
René Descartes, a French natural philosopher, was born Mar. 31, 1596. Many accounts of early modern science give Descartes short shrift...
Marlin Perkins, an American zoologist, was born Mar. 28, 1905, in Carthage, Missouri.
William Healey Dall, an American naturalist and explorer, died Mar. 27, 1927, at the age of 81. Born on Aug.
Othmar Ammann, a Swiss/American civil engineer, was born Mar. 26, 1879.
Frances Glessner Lee, a pioneer of forensic medicine in the United States, was born Mar. 25, 1879, in Chicago.
John Cowdery Kendrew, an English biochemist, was born Mar. 24, 1917, in Oxford.
Fitzedward Hall, an American Sanskrit scholar and collector of quotations, was born in Troy, N.Y., on Mar. 21, 1825.
Apollonius of Perga, a Greek mathematician, was born sometime after 245 BCE and died 50 or 60 years later.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened for traffic on Mar. 19, 1932.
Georg Simon Ohm, a German physicist and mathematician, was born Mar. 16, 1789. Ohm was attracted to the mathematical physics of Joseph Fourier...
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