Science Facts
Science Facts - June Month
| 1 June 1833 | James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula. |
| 1 June 1917 | American Chemist William S. Knowles ( Co- winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in asymmetric synthesis, specially in hydrogenation reactions. ) was born. |
| 4 June 1877 | German Biochemist Heinrich Wieland ( made research into the bile acids) was born. |
| 5 June | World Environment Day |
| 5 June 1900 | Hungarian Physicist Dennis Gabor (inventor of holography) was born. |
| 6 June 2012 | The astronomical event "Transit of Venus" happened on this day |
| 7 June 1862 | Austrian Physicist Philipp Lenard (worked on cathode rays and the discoveries of many of their properties ) was born. |
| 7 June 1896 | American Physical Chemist Robert S. Mulliken (responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory ) was born. |
| 8 June 1916 | English Molecular Biologist Francis Crick ( played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule) was born. |
| 11 June 1963 | First Lady Astronomer "Valentina " came back from journey to Space |
| 12 June | World Day against child labour |
| 12 June 1899 | American Biochemist Fritz Albert Lipmann (co- discoverer of coenzyme A) was born. |
| 13 June 1831 | Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell was born. |
| 13 June 1911 | American Physicist Luis Alvarez ( Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber ) was born. |
| 13 June 1983 | Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. |
| 14 June | World Blood Donor Day (WHO) |
| 15 June 1917 | American Chemist John Fenn ( worked in mass spectrometry ) was born. |
| 16 June 1897 | German Chemist Georg Witting ( reported the method of synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides ) was born. |
| 18 June 1918 | American Chemist Jerome Karle ( Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985 for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques. ) was born. |
| 19 June | World Sickle cell Anaemia Awareness Day |
| 19 June 1623 | French mathematician Blaise Pascal was born. |
| 19 June 1897 | English Chemist Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Expert in chemical kinetics) was born. |
| 20 June 1877 | Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
| 22 June 1973 | Successful landing of the astronomer of Skylab in Pacific Ocean after revolving around the earth for 28 days |
| 22 June 2006 | The newly discovered moons of Pluto are officially named Hydra and Nix by the international Astronomical Union. |
| 28 June 1943 | German Physicist Klaus von Klitzing (Winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect) was born. |
| 30 June 1880 | Longest total Solar Eclipse of millennium |
U.N. – United Nations, WHO – World Health Organization and UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization.