Significant Birthdays on June 6
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850)
On June 6, 1850, German inventor and physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun was born. Braun is renowned for his pivotal contributions to the advancement of radio and television technologies.
Manfred Sakel (1990)
Jewish Austrian neurophysiologist and psychiatrist Manfred Sakel was born on June 6, 1990. He is recognized for developing insulin shock therapy in 1927, a controversial treatment for schizophrenia that involved inducing daily comas over several weeks through large doses of insulin.
Edwin G. Kerbs (1918)
American biochemist Edwin G. Kerbs was born on June 6, 1918. He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for his work on how phosphorylation can activate proteins within cells.