Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 3

1657 - Death of William Harvey, English physician and natural philosopher (b. 1578)
1659 - Birth of David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
1723 - Birth of Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist (d. 1788)
1726 O.S. - Birth of James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
1769 - The transit of Venus is observed from many places in order to obtain data for measuring the distance from the Earth to the Sun, most notably by James Cook in Tahiti.
1873 - Birth of Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1879 - Birth of Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)
1899 - Birth of Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1924 - Birth of Torsten Wiesel, Swedish neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Birth of Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1969 - The science fiction television series Star Trek airs its final new episode after being canceled by NBC after a three-season run.
1977 - Death of Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
1990 - Death of Robert Noyce, American inventor (b. 1927)