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March 6, 2007

March 6th

1787 – Birth of Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist

1866 – Death of William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science

1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.

1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist

1939 – Death of Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician

2005 – Death of Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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