Famous Inventors Born in June

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao

Date of Birth: June 30, 1934

Profession: Indian chemist

Notable Works: He is a structural chemist who has made valuable contributions to the study of solid-state materials. A leading figure in the field of nanoscience, he has conducted important analytical work on graphene and carbon nanotubes to examine their potential for use in future devices.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Marlow Medal (1967); Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (1969); Hughes Medal (2000); India Science Award (2004)
Dan David Prize (2005); Legion of Honor (2005)
Abdus Salam Medal (2008); Royal Medal (2009)
Padma Shri (1974); Padma Vibhushan (1985)
Karnataka Ratna (2001); Bharat Ratna (2014)
Order of Friendship (2009); National Order of Scientific Merit (2012); Order of the Rising Sun (2015); ENI award (2020)

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Date of Birth: June 28, 1906

Profession: German-born American theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate.

Notable Works: The first American woman and the second woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1949 Maria Goeppert Mayer and Hans Jensen developed a model in which nucleons were distributed in shells with different energy levels. The model reflected observations of directions in which nucleons rotated around their own axes and around the center of the nucleus.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1963).

Karl Landsteiner

Date of Birth: June 14, 1868 

Profession: Austrian-born American biologist, physician, and immunologist.

Notable Works: He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood; discovery of poliovirus.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1930); National Academy of Sciences, USA (1932); Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1938); Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1946); ForMemRS (1941).

Frank Whittle

Date of Birth: June 1, 1907

Profession: English engineer.

Notable Works: He is credited with having invented the turbojet engine. His engines powered the world’s first jet aircraft, the Gloster E, in May 1941.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Member of the Order of Merit; Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Companion of the Order of the Bath; Commander of the Legion of Merit (United States); Rumford Medal; Louis E. Levy Medal; Fellow of the Royal Society; Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Charles Stark Draper Prize; Prince Philip Medal

Carl von Linde

Date of Birth: June 11, 1842 

Profession: German scientist

Notable Works: He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: Wilhelm Exner Medal (1922); Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1918); Werner von Siemens Ring (1916)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1914).

William Thomson

Date of Birth: June 26, 1824

Profession: British mathematician, physicist and engineer.

Notable Works: He did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its contemporary form.

Prestigious Honours and Awards: First Smith’s Prize (1845); Royal Medal (1856); Keith Medal (1864); Matteucci Medal (1876); Albert Medal (1879); Copley Medal (1883); John Fritz Medal (1905).

 Max Sterne

Date of Birth: June 1, 1905

Profession: Italian research veterinarian.

Notable Works: He developed an effective, safe, and reproducible vaccine against anthrax that succeeded in virtually eliminating the disease.