Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December 6

December 6:

 * 1586 - Birth of Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)


 * 1771 - Death of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)


 * 1778 - Birth of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)


 * 1855 - Death of William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789)


 * 1863 - Birth of Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914


 * 1867 - Death of Jean Pierre Flourens, French physician (b. 1794)


 * 1890 - Birth of Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)


 * 1920 - Birth of George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)