March 1, 1955
Chemist Gregory Hillhouse is born. He investigated organometallic compounds with transition metals and showed, for example, that nickel created bonds with elements such as nitrogen
March 2, 1972
Donella Meadows and her collaborators publish the report The Limits to Growth, in which they warn of the limits of the planet to sustain economic and population growth
March 3, 1924
Ruth Hubbard is born. During her research career she made important contributions to the understanding of the biochemistry and photochemistry of vision in vertebrates and invertebrates
March 4, 1877
Inventor Garrett Augustus Morgan is born. He redesigned the gas mask to prevent gas inhalations by firefighters and patented the automatic traffic light with warning light
March 5, 1885
Pathologist Louise Pearce is born. She participated in the development of a medication to treat sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis). It was the reference treatment until the 60s
March 6, 1665
The first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is published in London. It is considered the first scientific magazine in the world and is still active today
March 8, 1820
Fernando VII suppresses the Spanish Inquisition. This religious institution limited the progress of science for centuries, censoring books and persecuting theories contrary to its creed
March 9, 1934
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is born. In 1961, he became the first person to travel to outer space
March 10, 1961
Aeronautical surgeon Laurel Blair Salton Clark is born. She died in the space shuttle Columbia accident, during its re-entry into the atmosphere
March 11, 1911
Astronomer, mathematician and engineer Julio Garavito Armero dies. His research was decisive for the development of science in Colombia. A lunar crater has been named after him since 1970
March 12, 1824
Physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff is born. He contributed to the study of electrical circuits, plate theory, optics, spectroscopy, and blackbody radiation emission
March 13, 1946
Evolutionary ecologist Joan Roughgarden is born. She is known for her research on coevolution and sexual selection. Her best-known work is The Rainbow of Evolution
March 14, 1928
Naturalist Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, known for the successful series The Man and the Earth, is born. His passion and charisma influenced the adoption of nature protection policies
March 15, 1994
The asteroid 1994 ES1 passes 165,000 km from Earth, almost half the distance between our planet and the Moon. With a diameter of 28.5 m, it was detected just one day earlier
March 16, 1953
Computer programmer Richard Stallman is born. He is considered the founder of free software with the launch, in 1983, of the GNU operating system
March 17, 1993
The biophysicist Alexandre Quintanilha is recognized as Grand Officer of the Military Order of Santiago de la Espada. This Portuguese decoration rewards literary, scientific and artistic merit
March 18, 1910
The Center for Historical Studies, one of the institutions of the Board for Expansion of Studies, is created in Madrid. One of its most illustrious directors was Ramón Menéndez Pidal
March 19, 1943
Chemical engineer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina is born. He was one of the people who discovered the causes of the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer
March 20, 1890
Nuclear physicist Elizabeth Rona is born. She is known for her work with radioactive isotopes
March 21, 1994
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change comes into force. It has been ratified by approximately 200 countries
March 22, 1938
Physicist Alejandra Jáidar is born. Her research focused on how to apply nuclear physics methods and techniques as analytical tools in other fields of physics
March 23, 1749
Pierre Simon Laplace, one of the great scientists of the Enlightenment, is born. He demonstrated that planetary movements are stable and laid the foundations for the mathematical theory of probability
March 24, 1934
Animal nutrition researcher Egil Robert Ørskov is born. He is recognized for his contributions in the field of energy and protein metabolism in ruminant livestock
March 25, 1878
Coroner Frances Glessner Lee is born. She revolutionized the study of criminology with dioramas called Nutshell studies of unexplained deaths
March 26, 1926
Mathematician Magdalena Mouján Otaño is born. She was part of the National Atomic Energy Commission (Argentina) and was one of the first people to work with the Clementina computer
March 27, 1913
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist Raissa L’vovna Berg is born. Among others, she studied hereditary traits in Drosophila melanogaster and the population genetics of hereditary diseases
March 28, 1895
The Lumiére brothers present their invention called the cinematograph to the public in Paris (France)
March 29, 1958
Economist Nouriel Roubini is born. He is known for his predictions about the subprime mortgage financial crisis. Although he was accused of being a pessimist, his predictions were accurate