Today in Chemistry History
Sub-Topics: Alchemist - Biochemist - Chemist
Historical Events
Results 1 - 15 of 15
1915-11-12 - Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1934-11-15 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
1936-12-10 - Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1954-10-30 - Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
1954-11-03 - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1965-10-21 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
1965-10-21 - Robert B Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
1966-12-10 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968-10-30 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1974-10-15 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
1976-10-18 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
1984-10-17 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
1985-10-16 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle
1988-10-19 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1993-10-13 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 8 of 8
1743-08-26 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
1805-12-20 - Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
1817-10-30 - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry)
1881-12-31 - Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro chemistry)
1887-11-19 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
1894-06-20 - Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
1897-09-12 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
1914-05-19 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
1934-07-04 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
1950-08-05 - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73
1953-09-16 - Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro-chemistry), dies
1998-01-09 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
2003-05-28 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
