Also on This Day in History June 12
Discover what happened on June 12 with HISTORY's summaries of major events, anniversaries,
famous births and notable deaths.
Births on This Day, June 12
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1942
Bert Sakmann
He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Erwin Neher in 1991 for their work on "the function of single ion channels in cells," and the invention of the patch clamp.
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1922
Margherita Hack
Italian astrophysicist and activist who was one of the most important in her field in Italy, and contributed to the spectral identification of many stars.
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1912
Carl I. Hovland
Carl Iver Hovland was an American psychologist who pioneered in the study of social communication and the modification of attitudes and beliefs.
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1906
Lyman C. Craig
Lyman Creighton Craig was an American chemist who developed the counter-current distribution (CCD) method.
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1883
Robert H. Lowie
He was an Austrian-born American anthropologist whose extensive studies of North American Plains Indians include exemplary research on the Crow.
Deaths on This Day, June 12
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2010
Richard Darwin Keynes
British physiologist who did pioneering work on the mechanisms underlying the conduction of the action potential along nerve fibres.
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1982
Karl von Frisch
Zoologist whose studies of communication among bees added significantly to the knowledge of the chemical and visual sensors of insects and simple animals.
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1912
Ferdinand Zirkel
German geologist and micropetrographist who was a pioneer in microscopic petrography, the study of rock minerals by viewing thin slices of rock under a microscope and noting their optical characteristics.
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1885
Fleeming Jenkin
British engineer noted for his work in establishing units of electrical measurement.
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1916
Silvanus Phillips Thompson
He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author.