12 June
1967: On 12 June 1967, the USSR launched Venera 4, a Venus atmospheric probe.It arrived at Venus on 18 October 1967 and was the first probe to be placed directly ...
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1831: On 13 June 1831, James Clerk Maxwell was born.
Maxwell was a Scottish physicist who made contributions to the areas of optics and colour vision, being credited with taking the first colour photograph, defined the nature of gases and most notably, at the age of 24, wrote On Faraday's Lines of Force showing that a few simple mathematical equations expressed all the fundamental laws of light, electricity and magnetism.
In doing so he provided the tools to create the technological age, from radar to radio and televisions to mobile phones and spacecraft. He is credited with fundamentally changing our view of reality, so much so that Albert Einstein said, "One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell."
As Professor of Natural Philosophy at Marischal College in Aberdeen in 1856, he studied the problem of Saturn's rings and showed that their stability could be achieved only if the rings consisted of numerous small solid particles.
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11 June
1867: On 11 June 1867, Charles Fabry was born.Fabry was a French physicist who specialised in optics, devising methods for the accurate interferometry. He worked with Alfred Pérot, during 1896-1906, ...
10 June
1999: On 10 June 1999, ESA and NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had spotted a cluster of massive newborn stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), 170 000 ...
9 June
1993: On 9 June 1993, ESA's Ulysses space probe became the first spacecraft to reach a latitude of more than 32 degrees relative to the Sun's equator.Earth, and most other ...
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