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Events on 24 November

Events

• Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray [1974]
• On the Origin of Species published [1859]

Birthdays

• Mordicai Gerstein [1935]
  American illustrator, writer and director
• Simon van der Meer [1925]
  Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of W and Z particles

Death Anniversaries

• Heinz Oberhummer [2015]
  Austrian physicist and populariser of science
• Warren Weaver [1978]
  American scientist known for machine translation