Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/September 6

September 6:

• 1635 - Death of Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (b. 1571)

• 1649 - Death of Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English explorer and geographer (b. 1574)

• 1732 - Birth of Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (d. 1796)

• 1766 - Birth of John Dalton, British chemist and physicist (d. 1844)

• 1802 - Birth of Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (d. 1857)

• 1892 - Birth of Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

• 1902 - Death of Frederick Augustus Abel, English chemist (b. 1827)

• 1906 - Birth of Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)

• 1939 - Birth of Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• 1943 - Birth of Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine