Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 17

March 17:

• 1764 - Death of George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer

• 1782 - Death of Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)

• 1845 - The rubber band is patented

• 1846 - Death of Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784)

• 1853 - Death of Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician (b. 1803)

• 1870 - Birth of Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951)

• 1931 - Birth of David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)

• 1932 - Birth of Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist

• 1956 - Death of Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)

• 2003 - Death of Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)