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Science on the 13th of June in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
13 Jun 1514 warship	science	warship Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.	0
13 Jun 1555 Giovanni Antonio Magini	science	birth Giovanni Antonio Magini Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (died 1617)	0
13 Jun 1584 János Zsámboky	science	death János Zsámboky János Zsámboky, Hungarian physician and scholar (born 1531)	0
13 Jun 1595 Jan Marek Marci	science	birth Jan Marek Marci Jan Marek Marci, Bohemian physician (died 1667).	0
13 Jun 1773 Thomas Young	science	birth Thomas Young Thomas Young, English physicist (died 1829)	0
13 Jun 1776 William Battie	science	death William Battie William Battie, English psychiatrist (born 1703 or 1704)	0
13 Jun 1797 Samuel-Auguste Tissot	science	death Samuel-Auguste Tissot Samuel-Auguste Tissot, Swiss physician (born 1728)	0
13 Jun 1831 James Clerk Maxwell	science	birth James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (died 1879), mathematician.	0
13 Jun 1854 Charles Algernon Parsons	science	birth Charles Algernon Parsons Charles Algernon Parsons (died 1931), British inventor of the steam turbine.	0
13 Jun 1876 William Sealy Gosset	science	birth William Sealy Gosset William Sealy Gosset (died 1937), statistician.	0
13 Jun 1893 Alan A. Griffith	science	birth Alan A. Griffith Alan A. Griffith (died 1963), English stress engineer.	0
13 Jun 1906 Bruno de Finetti	science	birth Bruno de Finetti Bruno de Finetti (died 1985), statistician.	0
13 Jun 1911 Luis Alvarez	science	birth Luis Alvarez Luis Alvarez (died 1988), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.	0
13 Jun 1925 Charles Francis Jenkins	science	Charles Francis Jenkins (technology) Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images are viewed by representatives of the Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Department of Commerce and others. Jenkins calls this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".	0
13 Jun 1928 John Forbes Nash, Jr.	science	birth John Forbes Nash, Jr. John Forbes Nash, Jr. (died 2015), American mathematician, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.	0
13 Jun 1948 Nina L. Etkin	science	birth Nina L. Etkin Nina L. Etkin (died 2009), American anthropologist and biologist.	0
13 Jun 1966 Grigori Perelman	science	birth Grigori Perelman Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician.	0
13 Jun 1983 Neptune	science	Neptune (astronomy and space ) Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the solar system.	0

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