The year 1924 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy and space exploration
Biology
Biochemistry
History of science and technology
Mathematics
Medicine
Paleontology
Physics
Technology
Awards
Births
- February â Li Xintian (died 2019), Chinese neuropsychologist
- February 21 â Thelma Estrin (died 2014), American computer scientist and biomedical engineer
- March 2 â Michael Sela (died 2022), Polish-born Israeli immunologist
- March 11 â Franco Basaglia (died 1980), Italian psychiatrist
- March 12 â Mary Lee Woods (died 2017), English mathematician and computer programmer
- March 23
- Bjørn G. Andersen (died 2012), Norwegian quaternary geologist and glaciologist (early environmental studies)
- Olga Kennard (died 2023), English crystallographer
- May 3 â Isadore Singer (died 2021), American mathematician
- May 7 â James Learmonth Gowans (died 2020), British immunologist
- May 11 â Antony Hewish (died 2021), English radioastronomer (Nobel Prize in Physics 1974)
- June 11 â César Lattes (died 2005), Brazilian experimental physicist (Nobel Prize in Physic, 1950)
- June 24 â James W. Black (died 2010), Scottish pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1988)
- July 8 â Robert M. Chanock (died 2010), American pediatrician and virologist
- July 15 â David Cox (died 2022), English statistician
- August 1 â John Clive Ward (died 2000), English-born physicist working in quantum electrodynamics
- September 10 â Elizabeth Killick (died 2019), English naval electronics engineer
- September 22 â Laurel van der Wal (died 2009), American aeronautical engineer
- September 26 â Jean Hoerni (died 1997), Swiss-born microelectronics engineer
- November 9 â Don Beaven (died 2009), New Zealand medical researcher in the area of diabetes treatment and prevention
- November 20 â Benoît Mandelbrot (died 2010), Polish-born French American mathematician, originator of fractal geometry
- December 30 â Yvonne Brill (died 2013), Canadian scientist best known for her work developing rocket and jet propulsion technologies
Deaths
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