January 24th
1877 - Death of Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist
1928 - Birth of Desmond Morris, British anthropologist and author of the pop-sci work The Naked Ape.
1939 - Death of Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist
1966 - Death of Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist
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1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist
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