Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 6
November 6:[edit]
- 1656 – Death of Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
- 1771 – Death of John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
- 1822 – Death of Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
- 1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
- 1950 – Birth of Amir Aczel, lecturer in mathematics
- 1964 – Death of Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)