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: 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, 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.

||Armand Jean François Séguin or Segouin (d. 24 January 1835) was a French 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.

||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.

||Jules Tannery (b. 24 March 1848) was a French 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."

||Franz Serafin Exner (b. 24 March 1849) was an Austrian physicist.

||Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (d. 24 March 1849) was a German 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 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)Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Вави́лов (24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1891 – January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death.

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

||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.

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..

||Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (d. March 24, 1899) was a German physicist known mostly for his literary work. Pic.

||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)

||Ralph Hartzler Fox (b. March 24, 1913) was an American 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.

||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).

||Peter Gabriel Bergmann (b. 24 March 1915) was a German-American 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.

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

||John Woodland "Woody" Hastings, (b. March 24, 1927) was a leader in the field of photobiology, especially bioluminescence, and was one of the founders of the field of circadian biology. Pic.

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.

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

||Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS (d. 24 March 1956) was an English 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.

||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)

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, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)

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

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