February 6th
1617 - Death of Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist
1695 - Birth of Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
1744 - Birth of Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon
1833 - Death of Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist
1913 - Birth of Mary Leakey, British anthropologist
1950 - Death of Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist
1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1991 - Death of Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1998 - Death of Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist
2002 - Death of Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist and Nobel Prize Laureate
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