Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 13

June 13

• 1773 - Birth of Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829)
• 1831 - Birth of James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879)
• 1870 - Birth of Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, microbiologist, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1876 - Birth of William Sealey Gosset, English chemist and statistician (d. 1937)
• 1906 - Birth of Bruno de Finetti, Italian mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
• 1911 - Birth of Luis Alvarez, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• 1928 - Birth of John Forbes Nash, American mathematician
• 1966 - Birth of Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
• 1972 - Death of Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.
• 1995 - French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.