Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 7

June 7
 * 1654 - Louis XIV, founder of the Académie des sciences, is crowned King of France.
 * 1787 - Birth of William Daniel Conybeare, English geologist (d. 1857)
 * 1826 - Death of Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
 * 1862 - Birth of Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
 * 1877 - Birth of Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
 * 1896 - Birth of Robert S. Mulliken, American physical chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
 * 1942 - Death of Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
 * 1954 - Death of Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1912)
 * 1978 - Death of Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)