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