Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/January 24

January 24:

• 1877 - Death of Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)

• 1918 - The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective from February 14(NS)

• 1966 - Death of Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)

• 1988 - Death of Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)