Famous Inventors Born in June

Everything that we know about the existence of life is due to the presence of inventors. The work done by scientists should be appreciated since they have made things so much simpler and easier for humankind. We honour some of those who were successful in the field of science, and we are presenting a detailed list of famous attorney inventors born in June.

Learn more about their achievements and the notable works that they did in the field of science.

Virginia Apgar

Date of Birth: June 7, 1909

Profession: Doctor

Notable Works: The inventor of the Apgar Score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality.

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

Phillip A. Sharp

Date of Birth: June 6, 1944

Profession: American geneticist and molecular biologist; Nobel laureate

Notable Works: He co-discovered RNA splicing. Sharp’s current research focuses on small RNAs and other types of non-coding RNAs. His laboratory works to identify the target mRNAs of microRNAs (miRNAs).

Prestigious Honours and Awards: NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1980); Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1988); Dickson Prize (1991); Nobel Prize (1993); Novartis-Drew Award (2003); National Medal of Science (2004).

Tim Berners-Lee

Date of Birth: June 8, 1955

Profession: English Computer Scientist

Notable Works: He is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and Web Browsers.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Mountbatten Medal (1996), Marconi Prize (2002), Internet Hall of Fame for Innovators (2012), Turing Award (2017).

Richard E. Smalley

Date of Birth: June 6, 1943

Profession: American chemist; Nobel laureate

Notable Works: He discovered a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Irving Langmuir Award (1991); E. O. Lawrence Award (1991); EPS Europhysics Prize (1994); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996).

James Clerk Maxwell

Date of Birth: June 13, 1831

Profession: Scottish mathematician and scientist

Notable Works: He was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation as well as all of the Maxwell theorems.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Smith’s Prize (1854), Adams Prize (1857), Rumford Medal (1860), and Keith Prize (1869–71).

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Date of Birth: June 29, 1893

Profession: Indian scientist and statistician.

Notable Works: He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute and contributed to the design of large-scale sample surveys.

Prestigious Honours and Awards:  Padma Vibhushan (1968), an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE, 1942), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and Weldon Memorial Prize.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

Date of Birth: June 13, 1928

Profession: American mathematician.

Notable Works: He made fundamental contributions to the Game Theory; which is one of the most influential theories used in the fields of logic, social sciences, and economics. He also made several improvements to the concept of real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Neumann Theory Prize (1978), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1994), member of the National Academy of Science (1996), and Abel Prize (2015).