Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 24

December 24:

• 1724 - Birth of Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)

• 1754 - Birth of George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)

• 1761 - Birth of Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831)

• 1818 - Birth of James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)

• 1868 - Death of Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)

• 1872 - Death of William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)

• 1906 - Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech

• 1914 - Death of John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838)