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24 Mar 1653
Joseph Sauveur |
birth Joseph Sauveur Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician and acoustician (died 1716) |
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24 Mar 1682
Mark Catesby |
birth Mark Catesby Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749) |
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24 Mar 1812
Robert Gordon Latham |
birth Robert Gordon Latham Robert Gordon Latham, English ethnologist and philologist (died 1888) |
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24 Mar 1820
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel |
birth Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (died 1891), physicist. |
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24 Mar 1828
Jules Verne |
birth Jules Verne Jules Verne (died 1905), French science fiction author. |
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24 Mar 1835
Joseph Stefan |
birth Joseph Stefan Joseph Stefan (died 1893), Austro-Slovene physicist and mathematician. |
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24 Mar 1882
Robert Koch |
Robert Koch (biology) Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. |
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24 Mar 1897
Wilhelm Reich |
birth Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (died 1957), psychoanalyst. |
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24 Mar 1915
Margaret Lindsay Huggins |
death Margaret Lindsay Huggins Margaret Lindsay Huggins (born 1848), Irish-born astronomer. |
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24 Mar 1917
John Kendrew |
birth John Kendrew John Kendrew (died 1997), English molecular biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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24 Mar 1936
David Suzuki |
birth David Suzuki David Suzuki, Canadian geneticist and populariser of science. |
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24 Mar 1962
Auguste Piccard |
death Auguste Piccard Auguste Piccard (born 1884), Swiss physicist and explorer. |
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24 Mar 1990
An Wang |
death An Wang An Wang (b. 1920), Chinese American computer designer. |
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24 Mar 1995
Joseph Needham |
death Joseph Needham Joseph Needham (b. 1900), English biochemist & writer on the history of science and technology in China. |
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24 Mar 1997
Partial lunar eclipse |
Partial lunar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Partial lunar eclipse. |
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24 Mar 2006
SpaceX |
SpaceX (space exploration) The maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket ends in failure. |
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