Month → June

02
Jun

June 2, 1787 - Birth of Nils Sefström, discoverer of the chemical element vanadium or not?

05
Jun

June 5 - World Environment Day

07
Jun

June 7, 1877 – Birth of Charles Glover Barkla, Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in X-ray spectroscopy

08
Jun

June 8 - World Oceans Day

09
Jun

June 9, 1905 - A giant step in quantum physics is taken

12
Jun

June 12, 1946 – Birth of Catherine Bréchignac, a specialist in atomic physics

13
Jun

June 13, 1911 - Birth of Luis Walter Álvarez, directed the construction of the first proton linear particle accelerator

13
Jun

June 13, 1831 - Birth of James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electromagnetism

15
Jun

June 15, 1752 - Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod

16
Jun

June 16, 1967 – Death of Eugénie Cotton, researcher into the magnetic properties of rubbers

17
Jun

June 17 - World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

18
Jun

June 18, 1932- Birth of Dudley Robert Herschbach, inventor of an apparatus that allowed the collision of atoms and molecules

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