Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 1

June 1
 * 1633 - Birth of Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (d. 1687)
 * 1795 - Death of Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (b. 1744)
 * 1796 - Birth of Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (d. 1832)
 * 1833 - James Clark Ross discovers the position of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula.
 * 1846 - Urbain Le Verrier predicts the existence and location of Neptune from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus.
 * 1899 - Birth of Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician (d. 1963)
 * 1917 - Birth of William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1940 - Birth of Kip Thorne, American physicist
 * 1941 - Death of Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (b. 1873)
 * 1978 - The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
 * 1979 - Death of Werner Forssmann, German physician and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
 * 1990 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and start destroying each of their nation's stockpiles.
 * 2000 - The multilateral Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
 * 2006 - The first Under Secretary for Science of the US, Raymond L. Orbach, is sworn in.