Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 6

June 6

• 1436 - Birth of Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476)
• 1519 - Birth of Andrea Cesalpino, Italian botanist (d. 1603)
• 1580 - Birth of Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667)
• 1683 - The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
• 1761 - Many astronomers, including Mikhail Lomonosov and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle's 62 member network, observe the first transit of Venus since Edmond Halley suggested that its observation could determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
• 1850 - Birth of Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)
• 1877 - Birth of Hans Sachs, German serologist (d. 1945)
• 1878 - Death of Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor (b. 1790)
• 1906 - Birth of Max August Zorn, German-born mathematician (d. 1993)
• 1918 - Birth of Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 - Birth of Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 - Birth of Richard Smalley, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 - Birth of Phillip Allen Sharp, American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1961 - Death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
• 1971 - Spacecraft Soyuz 11 launches.
• 1996 - Death of George Davis Snell, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)