June Birthdays
What famous inventor or scientist has the same June birthday as you.
June 21
- 1876 - Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist who was the first person to freeze helium gas into a solid
- 1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect who designed the Nuove Struttura
- 1955 - Tim Bray, Canadian inventor and software developer who wrote Bonnie a Unix file system benchmarking tool, Lark the first XML Processor, and APE the Atom Protocol Exerciser
June 22
- 1701 - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish architect who built Christiansborg Castle
- 1864 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician who created a geometry of numbers, and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity
- 1887 - Julian S Huxley, English biologist who was a proponent of natural selection, the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund
- 1910 - Konrad Zuse, German civil engineer and computer pioneer who invented the first freely programmable computer
June 23
- 1848 - Antoine Joseph Sax, Belgian inventor of the saxophone
- 1894 - Alfred Kinsey, entomologis and sexologist, who wrote the famous Kinsey Report on American sexuality
- 1902 - Howard Engstrom, American computer designer who promoted the use of the UNIVAC computer
- 1912 - Alan Turing, mathematician and computer theory pioneer, who invented the Turing Machine
- 1943 - Vinton Cerf, American inventor of internet protocol
June 24
- 1771 - E.I. du Pont, French chemist and industralist, who founded the gunpowder manufacturing company E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, now just called Du Pont
- 1883 - Victor Francis Hess, American physicist who discovered cosmic rays, 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1888 - Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect who built Juliana Hall and Sonsbeek Pavillion
- 1909 - William Penney, British physicist who invented the first British atom bomb
- 1915 - Fred Hoyle, cosmologist who proposed steady-state universe theory
- 1927 - Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist who discovered the tau lepton, Nobel Prize 1995
June 25
- 1864 - Walther Hermann Nernst, German physical chemist and physicist who is known for his theories behind the calculation of chemical affinity as embodied in the third law of thermodynamics, and for developing the Nernst equation, Nobel Prize 1920
- 1894 - Hermann Oberth, German rocket scientist who invented the V2 rocket
- 1907 - J Hans D Jensen, German physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, Nobel Prize 1963
- 1911 - William Howard Stein, American biochemist who was known for his work on ribonuclease and foor his contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule, Nobel Prize 1972
- 1925 - Robert Venturi, American modern architect who built the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, Wu Hall at Princeton, and the Seattle Art Museum
June 26
- 1730 - Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer who catalogued "M objects"
- 1824 William Thomson Kelvin, British physicist who invented the Kelvin Scale
- 1898 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer who invented the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane, the most important fighter in the German Luftwaffe
- 1902 - William Lear, engineer and manufacturer, who invented jets and eight-track tape, and founded the Lear Jet company
- 1913 - Maurice Wilkes invented the stored program concept for computers
June 27
- 1880 - Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
June 28
- 1824 - Paul Broca, French brain surgeon, who was the first person to locate the speech center of the brain
- 1825 - Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist, who invented the conical Erlenmeyer flask in 1961, discovered and synthesis several organic compounds, and formulated the Erlenmeyer rule
- 1906 - Maria Goeppert Mayer, American atomic physicist, who proposed the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus, Nobel Prize 1963
- 1912 - Carl F von Weiszacker, German physicist, who performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War
- 1928 John Stewart Bell, Irish physicist who wrote Bell's Theorem
June 29
- 1858 - George Washington Goethals, civil engineer who built the Panama Canal
- 1861 William James Mayo, American surgeon who started the Mayo clinic
- 1911 - Klaus Fuchs, German nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhaatan Project and arrested for being a spy
June 30
- 1791 - Felix Savart, French surgeon and physicist who formulated the Law of Biot and Savart
- 1926 - Paul Berg, American biochemist known for his contributions to research in nucleic acids
