Template:Selected anniversaries/March 24

<gallery> ||1494 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)

|File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen uses scrying engine technology to forecast the Pi disaster.

File:Joseph Priestley.jpg|link=Joseph Priestley (nonfiction)|1733: British scientist Joseph Priestley born. He will be historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution will leave him isolated within the scientific community.

File:John Harrison.jpg|link=John Harrison (nonfiction)|1776: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison dies. He invented a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.

||1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (d. 1882)

||1820 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891)

||1834 – John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902)

||1835 – Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893) Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jozef Stefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was an ethnic Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.

||1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.

||1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.

||1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)

||1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

||1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)

||1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951)

||1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (d. 1977)

||1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (d. 1960)

File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1896: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov uses radio waves to transmit a message between different campus buildings in St Petersburg..

||1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

||1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)

||1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)

File:Paul Lorenzen.jpg|link=Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen born. He will found the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah), and invent game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).

File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1917: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew born. He will share the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.

||1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore

||1927 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014)

File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1926: Hilbert curve and Enrico Fermi share research data, discover new class of scrying engine.

||1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)

||1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.

||1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.

File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard dies. He made record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invented of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives to explore the ocean.

File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|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.

File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1966: Brainiac Explains lecture series implicated in crimes against mathematical constants.

||1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.

||Debabrata Basu (d. 24 March 2001) was an Indian statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics.

||2002 – César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)

||2012 – Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)

||2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)

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