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scientist born in june

June has a different significance apart from being the pre-monsoon month.

It is the sixth month of both the Georgian and Julian calendar.

Whether it is just a coincidence or a fact, anyone could hardly explain.

But you would be amazed to find that the most significant scientists are born in this month, making it a worthy one.

The most interesting fact is that scientists across the world share the same birthday month.

Take a look at who they are!

1. Virginia Apgar

Birthday: June 7, 1909

Birthdate: New Jersey, United States

Occupation: Doctor
Collection of Award: Distinctive Service Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists (1966), Woman of the Year in Science, and Ladies Home Journal (1973).

Contribution: Inventing the APGAR (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity and Respiration) score.

2. Tim Berners-Lee

Birthdate: June 8, 1955

Birth-place: London, United Kingdom

Occupation: Computer Scientist
Collection of Award: Mountbatten Medal (1996), Marconi Prize (2002), Internet Hall of Fame for Innovators (2012), Turing Award (2017).

Contribution: Inventing the World Wide Web, Web Browser, HTML and Hypertext Transfer Protocol

3. John Forbes Nash Jr

Birthdate: June 13, 1928

Birth place: West Virginia, United States

Occupation: Mathematician
Collection of Award: John von Neumann Theory Prize (1978), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994), member of the National Academy of Science (1996), and Abel Prize (2015).

Contribution: Contributions to game theory, differential geometry, Nash-Moser Theorem, and the study of partial differential equations.

4. James Clerk Maxwell

Birthdate: June 13, 1831

Birth place: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Occupation: Scientist
Collection of Award: Smith’s Prize (1854), Adams Prize (1857), Rumford Medal (1860), and Keith Prize (1869–71).

Contribution: Formulating the electromagnetic theory and Maxwell theorems.

5. Maria Goeppert Mayer

Birthdate: June 28, 1906

Birth place: California, United States

Occupation: Theoretical physicist
Collection of Award: Nobel Prize in Physics (1963).

Contribution: Proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus.

6. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Birthdate: June 29, 1893

Birth place: Kolkata, India

Occupation: Scientist
Collection of Award: Padma Vibhushan (1968), an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE, 1942), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and Weldon Memorial Prize.

Contribution: Creating the Mahalanobis Distance Feldman–Mahalanobis Model.

7. Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao

Birthdate: June 30, 1934

Birth place: Bengaluru, India

Occupation: Chemist
Collection of Award: Bharat Ratna, Padma Shri, Padma Vibhushan, Hughes Medal, and Dan David Prize in the Future Time Dimension.

Contribution: Working in solid-state chemistry and materials science.

June your birth month too? Then you are probably sharing your birthday with one of these great scientists. Let us know in the comment section!