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Science on the 18th of June in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
18 Jun 1799 Prosper Ménière	science	birth Prosper Ménière Prosper Ménière, French physician (died 1862)	0
18 Jun 1861 Eaton Hodgkinson	science	death Eaton Hodgkinson Eaton Hodgkinson (born 1789), English structural engineer.	0
18 Jun 1873 Alice Vickery	science	Alice Vickery (physiology and medic) Alice Vickery passes the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's examination, becoming the first qualified female pharmacist in the United Kingdom	0
18 Jun 1883 John Waterston	science	death John Waterston John Waterston (born 1811), Scottish physicist and civil engineer (drowned).	0
18 Jun 1905 Per Teodor Cleve	science	death Per Teodor Cleve Per Teodor Cleve (born 1840), chemist	0
18 Jun 1906 Orvan Hess	science	birth Orvan Hess Orvan Hess (died 2002), obstetrician.	0
18 Jun 1907 Alexander Stewart Herschel	science	death Alexander Stewart Herschel Alexander Stewart Herschel (born 1836), astronomer.	0
18 Jun 1922 Jacobus Kapteyn	science	death Jacobus Kapteyn Jacobus Kapteyn (born 1851), astronomer.	0
18 Jun 1944 Harry Fielding Reid	science	death Harry Fielding Reid Harry Fielding Reid (born 1859), American geophysicist.	0
18 Jun 1948 Columbia Records	science	Columbia Records (technology) Columbia Records unveil the LP records developed by Peter Goldmark of CBS Laboratories.	0
18 Jun 1962 Lisa Randall	science	birth Lisa Randall Lisa Randall, American theoretical physicist.	0
18 Jun 1976 Gravity Probe A	science	Gravity Probe A (astronomy and space ) Gravity Probe A, a satellite-based experiment to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, is launched.	0
18 Jun 1980 Kazimierz Kuratowski	science	death Kazimierz Kuratowski Kazimierz Kuratowski (b. 1896), Polish mathematician.	0
18 Jun 2001 René Dumont	science	death René Dumont René Dumont (b. 1904), French agronomist.	0

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