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Science Facts - June Month

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1 June 1917	American Chemist William S. Knowles (Co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in asymmetric synthesis, specially in hydrogenation reactions) was born.
3 June 1924	Swedish neuroscientist Torsten Wiesel (Co-winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system) was born.
4 June 1877	German Biochemist Heinrich Wieland (Made research into the bile acids) was born.
5 June	World Environment Day
6 June 1850	German Physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun (Co-winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy) was born.
6 June 2012	The astronomical event "Transit of Venus" happened on this day
7 June 1862	Austrian Physicist Philipp Lenard (Worked on cathode rays and the discoveries of many of their properties) was born.
7 June 1896	American Physical Chemist Robert S. Mulliken (Responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory) was born.
8 June 1916	English Molecular Biologist Francis Crick ( played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule) was born.
12 June	World Day against child labour
12 June 1899	American Biochemist Fritz Albert Lipmann (Co- discoverer of coenzyme A) was born.
13 June 1831	Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell was born.
13 June 1911	American Physicist Luis Alvarez (Winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber) was born.
13 June 1983	"Pioneer 10" becomes the first manmade object to leave the Solar System.
14 June	World Blood Donor Day (WHO)
15 June 1917	American Chemist John Fenn (Worked in mass spectrometry ) was born.
16 June 1897	German Chemist Georg Witting (Reported the method of synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides) was born.
18 June 1918	American Chemist Jerome Karle (Winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.) was born.
19 June	World Sickle cell Anaemia Awareness Day
19 June 1623	French mathematician Blaise Pascal was born.
20 June 1877	Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
22 June 1973	Successful landing of the astronomer of Skylab in Pacific Ocean after revolving around the earth for 28 days
22 June 2006	The newly discovered moons of Pluto are officially named Hydra and Nix by the international Astronomical Union.
24 June 1927	American Physicist Martin Lewis Perl (Winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the tau lepton) was born.
25 June 1911	American Chemist William Howard Stein (Co-winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule) was born.
28 June 1943	German Physicist Klaus von Klitzing (Winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect) was born.
30 June 1880	Longest total Solar Eclipse of millennium

U.N. – United Nations, WHO – World Health Organization and UNESCO – United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization.