Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 12

June 12
 * 1577 - Birth of Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643)
 * 1812 - Birth of Edmond Hébert, French geologist (d. 1890)
 * 1843 - Birth of David Gill, Scottish astronomer (d. 1914)
 * 1885 - Death of Fleeming Jenkin, British engineer (b. 1833)
 * 1899 - Birth of Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
 * 1942 - Birth of Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1982 - Death of Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
 * 2003 - The Science Council, the umbrella body for scientific professional institutes and learned societies in the UK, is granted a royal charter.