Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 24

March 24:

• 1494 - Birth of Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)

• 1809 - Birth of Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)

• 1820 - Birth of A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)

• 1835 - Birth of Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (d. 1893)

• 1881 - Death of Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)

• 1884 - Birth of Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)

• 1891 - Birth of Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)

• 1893 - Birth of Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)

• 1903 - Birth of Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)

• 1915 - Death of Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)

• 1917 - Birth of John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)

• 1962 - Death of Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)

• 1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing

• 2002 - Death of César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)