Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 17
- 1714 - Birth of César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
- 1832 - Birth of Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
- 1898 - Birth of Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
- 1917 - Birth of Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
- 1920 - Birth of François Jacob, French biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 - Death of Arthur Harden, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
- 1996 - Death of Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
- 2001 - Death of Donald J. Cram, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)