Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 10

June 10

• 1706 - Birth of John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
• 1710 - Birth of James Short, Scottish mathematician and optician (d. 1768)
• 1803 - Birth of Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
• 1804 - Birth of Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
• 1836 - Death of André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
• 1858 - Death of Robert Brown, British botanist (b. 1773)
• 1861 - Birth of Pierre Duhem, French physicist and philosopher of science (d. 1916)
• 1929 - Birth of E. O. Wilson, American biologist
• 1944 - Death of Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
• 2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.