Template:On This Day (nonfiction)/March 24

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||1494: Georgius Agricola born ... mineralogist and scholar. Pic.

|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: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman 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 born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.

||1811: Eugène-Melchior Péligot born ... chemist who isolated the first sample of uranium metal in 1841. Pic.

||1820: Edmond Becquerel born ... physicist and academic. Pic.

||1834: John Wesley Powell born ... soldier, geologist, and explorer. Pic.

||1835: Josef Stefan born ... physicist, mathematician, and poet. Pic.

||1835: Armand Jean François Séguin dies ... chemist and physiologist who discovered a faster and cheaper process for tanning leather. As a result, he became immensely rich through the supply of leather to Napoleon's armies. Pic search.

||1840: George Smith born ... archaeologist and Assyriologist who translated Babylonian cuneiform tablets (1872) describing a great deluge, part of the Gilgamesh epic, and akin to that found in Genesis. Smith, as an apprentice banknote engraver since age 14, spent much of his own time teaching himself how to decipher cuneiform, by studying inscriptions available at the British Museum. His skill was recognized, and he worked for the British Museum from 1867. Smith engaged in fieldwork in 1873 at Nineveh (Kuyunjik) finding more tablet fragments of the flood story, and others on the Babylonian dynasties. He published his work in The Chaldean Account of Genesis (1876). He died at age 36 of a fever while excavating more of Assurbanipal's library. Pic.

||1848: Jules Tannery born ... mathematician. Tannery discovered a surface of the fourth order of which all the geodesic lines are algebraic. He once remarked, "Mathematicians are so used to their symbols and have so much fun playing with them, that it is sometimes necessary to take their toys away from them in order to oblige them to think." Pic.

||1849: Franz Serafin Exner born ... physicist. Pic.

||1849: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner dies ... chemist who is best known for work that foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical elements and inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. Pic.

||1864: Chemist, botanist, and academic Karl Ernst Claus dies. Pic.

||1869: The last of Titokowaru's Maori forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. No DOB, no DOD. Pic.

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

||1881: Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse dies ... geologist and mineralogist. Pic.

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

||1884: Peter Debye born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.

||1891: Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov ... physicist and academic. Pic (postage stamp).

||1892: Marston Morse born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.

||1893: Walter Baade born, German astronomer and author. He will discover that there are two types of Cepheid variable stars. Using this discovery he recalculated the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Hubble in 1929. Pic.

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.

||1899: Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann dies ... physicist known mostly for his literary work. Pic.

||1903: Adolf Butenandt born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.

||1911: Joseph Barbera born ... animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera. Pic.

||1913: Ralph Fox born ... mathematician. As a professor at Princeton University, he taught and advised many of the contributors to the Golden Age of differential topology, and he played an important role in the modernization and main-streaming of knot theory. Pic.

||1915: Margaret Lindsay Huggins dies ... astronomer and author. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-authored the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1899). Pic.

||1915: Karol Olszewski dies ... chemist, mathematician, and physicist. Pic.

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

||1915: Peter Gabriel Bergmann born ... physicist best known for his work with Albert Einstein on a unified field theory encompassing all physical interactions. He also introduced primary and secondary constraints into mechanics. Pic search.

File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|1917: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew born. Kendrew 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 born ... poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore. (Alive March 2020.)

||1927: John Woodland Hastings born ... leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and was one of the founders of the field of circadian biology. Pic.

||1929: Michael P. Barnett born ... chemist and computer scientist. Pic search.

||1940: Édouard Branly dies ... physicist and academic, early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the Branly coherer around 1890. Pic.

||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.

||1949: Rodion Osievich Kuzmin dies ... mathematician, known for his works in number theory and analysis. He will be known for the Gauss–Kuzmin distribution is a discrete probability distribution that arises as the limit probability distribution of the coefficients in the continued fraction expansion of a random variable uniformly distributed in (0, 1). Pic.

||1956: Physicist and academic Willem Hendrik Keesom dies. Pic.

||1956: E. T. Whittaker dies ... mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and the theory of special functions. He had a particular interest in numerical analysis, but also worked on celestial mechanics and the history of physics. Pic.

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

File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard dies. Piccard 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.

||1972: The United California Bank burglary took place on 24 March 1972, when the safe deposit vault at United California Bank in Laguna Niguel, California, was broken into and $9 million ($55 million today) in cash and valuables were looted by professional burglars led by Amil Dinsio.

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

||2001: Debabrata Basu dies ... statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics.

||2002: César Milstein dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.

File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The spacecraft Stardust conducts a burn to consume its remaining fuel. The spacecraft has little fuel left and scientists hope the data collected will help in the development of a more accurate system for estimating fuel levels on spacecraft.

||2012: Paul Callaghan dies ... physicist and academic. Callaghan's research group specialized in developing NMR methodologies for the study of molecular dynamics and molecular organisation in complex fluids, soft matter and porous materials. Pic search.

||2013: Gury Marchuk dies ... physicist, mathematician, and academic. Pic.

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