Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 17

June 17
 * 1714 - Birth of César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784)
 * 1832 - Birth of Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
 * 1898 - Birth of Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961)
 * 1917 - Birth of Atle Selberg, Norwegian mathematician
 * 1920 - Birth of François Jacob, French biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1940 - Death of Arthur Harden, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
 * 1996 - Death of Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
 * 2001 - Death of Donald J. Cram, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)