Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/August 24

August 24:

 * AD 79 - Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)


 * 1595 - Death of Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)


 * 1664 - Death of Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. c.1610)


 * 1787 - Birth of James Weddell, English explorer of Antarctica (d. 1834)


 * 1831 - Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle


 * 1832 - Death of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)


 * 1888 - Death of Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)


 * 1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera


 * 1899 - Birth of Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983)


 * 2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a dwarf planet