Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February 6
- 1617 - Death of Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
- 1695 - Birth of Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
- 1744 - Birth of Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
- 1833 - Death of Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
- 1853 - Birth of Ignacij Klemenčič, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
- 1916 - Birth of John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
- 1927 - Birth of Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992)
- 1950 - Death of Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
- 1959 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit
- 1991 - Death of Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 1998 - Death of Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
- 2002 - Death of Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)