Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 24

October 24:

• 1601 – Death of Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)

• 1632 – Birth of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)

• 1655 – Death of Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1592)

• 1708 – Death of Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician

• 1804 – Birth of Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)

• 1854 – Birth of Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)

• 1906 – Birth of Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)

• 1920 – Birth of Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)

• 1932 – Birth of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

• 1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space

• 1966 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)

• 1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission