Today in Chemist History
Chemistry Topics: Alchemist - Biochemist
Historical Events
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1827-04-07 - English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1886-03-29 - Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
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
1938-11-16 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1943-04-19 - Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1951-10-15 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive
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
1966-12-10 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968-10-30 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1971-01-06 - Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
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
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1577-01-12 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)
1580-01-12 - Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, (found boiling pt temp)
1619-12-17 - Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician
1627-01-25 - Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
1660-02-19 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
1672-02-13 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (d. 1731)
1677-09-17 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1694-06-26 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1768)
1705-04-12 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780)
1709-07-11 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist (d. 1785)
1728-04-16 - Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist
1731-10-10 - Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen)
1735-03-20 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784)
1736-08-26 - Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)
1742-12-09 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist (lemon acid)
1743-08-26 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry (Oxygen)
1743-12-01 - Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium)
1748-12-09 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1749-11-03 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
1750-03-20 - Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)
1755-06-15 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (d. 1809)
1760-06-05 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium)
1763-05-16 - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
1768-05-03 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (d. 1838)
1768-11-30 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1771-06-24 - E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont)
1777-08-14 - Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist (View of Chemical Law)
1778-12-06 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1778-12-17 - Hunphry Davy, English chemist (discovered some elements)
1779-08-20 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1785-04-09 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
1788-01-11 - William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
1788-08-02 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
1792-01-12 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841)
1792-10-12 - Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
1794-01-25 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1795-01-06 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
1795-02-08 - Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
1796-01-22 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1802-02-02 - Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
1803-05-12 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics)
1805-12-20 - Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
1805-12-21 - Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
1806-06-16 - Edward Davy, English physician, chemist, and inventor (d. 1885)
1810-07-21 - Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist
1811-03-31 - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
1812-06-09 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
1813-08-21 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1813-12-19 - Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist (ozone)
1816-08-21 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1817-01-01 - Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist
1817-02-02 - John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid)
1817-10-30 - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry)
1822-06-13 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1825-06-28 - Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf)
1826-07-13 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (Reaction of Cannizzaro)
1827-07-17 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet)
1827-10-29 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist (d. 1907)
1828-09-15 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist (d. 1886)
1830-05-10 - Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
1830-11-03 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist
1831-03-31 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist
1832-06-17 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium)
1834-01-27 - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)
1834-02-07 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
1835-10-31 - J F W Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905)
1836-05-28 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918)
1839-02-11 - Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
1839-03-08 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis)
1842-09-20 - James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet)
1842-10-01 - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur)
1842-12-03 - Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Eco Assn-1st Pres)
1844-10-30 - Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist (d. 1930)
1846-02-10 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1847-03-04 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1847-03-27 - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1850-10-08 - Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936)
1852-01-01 - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist (d. 1904)
1852-08-30 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901)
1852-09-28 - [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, Paris France, chemist (Nobel 1906)
1852-10-02 - William Ramsay, chemist
1852-10-09 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1853-09-02 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
1854-10-24 - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (Heterogenen Gleichgewichte)
1854-11-05 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1859-02-19 - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903)
1860-05-20 - Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1860-07-11 - Johannis J van Laar, Dutch chemist (thermodynamics)
1861-01-18 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
1863-11-14 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite)
1863-12-06 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist (d. 1914)
1863-12-15 - Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
1864-06-25 - Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist (Nobel 1920)
1865-04-01 - Richard Zsigmondy, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925)
1865-10-12 - Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1866-08-05 - Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923)
1866-12-12 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
1867-11-21 - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist
1868-01-09 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1868-01-31 - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
Famous Deaths
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1633-11-07 - Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies
1644-12-30 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (b. 1577)
1670-03-10 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
1682-11-29 - Rupert, prince of Palts/adm/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62
1731-01-06 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
1734-05-24 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1742-11-12 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1768-04-29 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1780-10-17 - William Cookworthy, English chemist (b. 1705)
1784-07-08 - Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1786-05-21 - Carl W Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43
1790-02-05 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1794-05-08 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
1799-12-06 - Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71
1804-02-06 - Joseph Priestley, Engl/US theologist/philosopher/chemist, dies at 70
1809-12-16 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)
1810-02-24 - Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
1817-01-01 - Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73
1819-11-15 - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
1821-04-20 - Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
1822-11-06 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1823-04-07 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)
1828-12-22 - William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (b. 1766)
1832-07-30 - Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
1837-12-26 - Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87
1838-10-01 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
1841-02-15 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
1841-10-28 - Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
1843-07-25 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
1844-07-27 - John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77
1845-04-18 - Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77
1848-08-07 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
1850-04-09 - William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
1850-05-09 - Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
1852-08-15 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
1853-04-13 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1853-04-23 - Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies
1854-04-15 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1856-07-09 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (b. 1776)
1870-04-04 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
1873-04-18 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69
1878-01-07 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
1878-01-19 - Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67
1885-07-01 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73
1885-11-26 - Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
1887-05-11 - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
1888-08-09 - Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45
1889-04-09 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
1889-04-19 - Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies
1892-02-20 - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
1892-03-01 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1892-05-05 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
1896-07-13 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
1899-08-16 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
1901-04-01 - Francois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70
1902-05-01 - John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
1902-09-06 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75
1904-10-04 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
1906-04-19 - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
1907-02-02 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
1907-02-08 - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
1907-02-20 - [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54
1907-03-18 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
1907-07-14 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1909-01-22 - Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83
1910-05-10 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85
1911-03-01 - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1911-03-13 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
1914-05-27 - Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
1914-12-27 - Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and inventor (b. 1863)
1916-07-23 - William Ramsey, chemist, dies
1917-06-20 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
1917-08-20 - JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
1919-04-04 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86
1919-07-15 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1919-11-15 - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies
1922-07-22 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1923-03-27 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1923-05-20 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
1927-03-04 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1927-10-02 - Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies
1928-04-02 - Theodore Richards, US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies
1929-09-23 - Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
1930-12-13 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian/Austrian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1931-02-26 - Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83
1932-04-04 - Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
1934-01-29 - Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65
1934-07-04 - "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies
1934-07-04 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (b. 1867)
1940-04-26 - Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65
1941-11-18 - Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1944-02-24 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
1944-11-02 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1945-11-20 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1947-08-19 - Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
1949-03-30 - Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
1949-08-31 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies
1950-02-06 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1950-08-05 - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73
1952-11-09 - Chaim Weizmann, bio-chemist/1st president Israel, dies at 77
