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Science on the 6th of June in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
06 Jun 1519 Andrea Cesalpino	science	birth Andrea Cesalpino Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died 1603)	0
06 Jun 1618 James Lancaster	science	death James Lancaster Sir James Lancaster, English navigator (born 1554)	0
06 Jun 1639 Peter Crüger	science	death Peter Crüger Peter Crüger, German polymath (born 1580)	0
06 Jun 1825 Friedrich Bayer	science	birth Friedrich Bayer Friedrich Bayer (died 1880), German manufacturing chemist.	0
06 Jun 1850 Karl Ferdinand Braun	science	birth Karl Ferdinand Braun Karl Ferdinand Braun (died 1918), physicist.	0
06 Jun 1868 Robert Falcon Scott	science	birth Robert Falcon Scott Robert Falcon Scott (died 1912), explorer.	0
06 Jun 1878 Robert Stirling	science	death Robert Stirling Robert Stirling, Scottish clergyman and inventor (born 1790)	0
06 Jun 1879 William Denny and Brothers	science	William Denny and Brothers (technology) William Denny and Brothers launch the world's first ocean-going ship to be built of mild steel, the SS Rotomahana, on the River Clyde in Scotland.	0
06 Jun 1882 Henry W. Seeley	science	Henry W. Seeley (technology) Henry W. Seeley patents the electric clothes iron in the United States.	0
06 Jun 1912 Novarupta	science	Novarupta (earth sciences) The Novarupta volcano on the Alaska Peninsula comes into being through a VEI 6 eruption, the largest this century.	0
06 Jun 1918 Edwin G. Krebs	science	birth Edwin G. Krebs Edwin G. Krebs (died 2009), Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist.	0
06 Jun 1941 Louis Chevrolet	science	death Louis Chevrolet Louis Chevrolet (born 1878), Swiss-born race driver and automobile builder in the United States.	0
06 Jun 1943 Richard Smalley	science	birth Richard Smalley Richard Smalley (died 2005), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene.	0
06 Jun 1960 American Heart Association	science	American Heart Association (medicine) The American Heart Association announces a strong statistical association between heavy cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease.	0
06 Jun 1961 Carl Jung	science	death Carl Jung Carl Jung (born 1875), Swiss psychiatrist.	0
06 Jun 1971 Edward Andrade	science	death Edward Andrade Edward Andrade (b. 1887), English physicist.	0
06 Jun 1980 Luis	science	Luis (geophysics) Luis and Walter Alvarez with Frank Asaro and Helen Michels propose the Alvarez hypothesis, that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by the impact of a large asteroid 66 million years ago, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.	0
06 Jun 1984 tile-matching video game	science	tile-matching video game (computer science) The Tetris tile-matching video game, designed by Alexey Pajitnov, is launched in the Soviet Union.	0
06 Jun 1996 George Davis Snell	science	death George Davis Snell George Davis Snell (b. 1903), American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist.	0

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