Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 24

June 24

• 1637 - Death of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
• 1795 - Birth of Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
• 1880 - Birth of Oswald Veblen, American mathematician (d. 1960)
• 1883 - Birth of Victor Francis Hess, American physicist (d. 1964)
• 1900 - Birth of Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
• 1915 - Birth of Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001)
• 1927 - Birth of Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate