Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 6
July 6:[edit]
- 1476 - Regiomantus, German astronomer (b. 1436)
- 1686 - Birth of Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
- 1766 - Birth of Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
- 1785 - Birth of William Jackson Hooker, English botanist (d. 1865)
- 1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog
- 1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
- 2003 - The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris that will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively
- 2005 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)