Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/July 6

July 6:

• 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)

• 1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)

• 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)