Today in Chemist History (Part 2)
Chemistry Topics: Alchemist - Biochemist
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Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 243
1868-12-09 - Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist (Nobel 1919)
1869-03-07 - Ernst J Cohen, Dutch chemist
1870-01-16 - Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (hardening of oils)
1870-06-21 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)
1871-05-06 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
1872-08-13 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942)
1874-07-14 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
1874-08-27 - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
1874-10-26 - Martin Lowry, British chemist (d. 1936)
1875-10-23 - Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (d. 1946)
1876-06-13 - William Sealey Gosset, English chemist, statistician (d. 1937)
1877-03-09 - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
1877-06-04 - Heinrich Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927)
1877-09-02 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956)
1879-03-08 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium)
1879-03-11 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
1880-08-07 - Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology (sexual hormones)
1881-03-23 - Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53)
1881-12-31 - Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro chemistry)
1883-03-29 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Micromanometric analysis)
1883-07-03 - Moses Leverock Crossley, US bio-chemist
1884-03-24 - Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
1884-03-25 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
1884-08-30 - Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926)
1884-10-11 - Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel)
1885-08-01 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
1886-03-08 - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
1886-10-26 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist (Myslitel) [OS]
1886-11-07 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26]
1887-08-31 - Friedrich A Paneth, Austrian/British chemist
1887-09-13 - Lavoslav Ruzicka, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1887-11-19 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
1889-04-21 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1889-05-18 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (d. 1944)
1890-02-15 - Robert Ley, German chemist/MP (NSDAP)
1891-03-12 - Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1891-05-15 - Fritz Feigl, Austria, chemist (spot tests)
1893-10-28 - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist
1893-11-13 - Edward A Doisy Sr, US bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943)
1894-02-11 - Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist (Massenanalyse)
1894-06-20 - Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
1895-01-15 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1896-04-15 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1896-06-07 - Robert Mulliken, US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966)
1896-12-15 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, US bio-chemist
1897-05-17 - Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1897-06-16 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1897-07-20 - Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950)
1897-09-12 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1956)
1897-11-09 - Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1898-02-25 - William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist (textiles)
1898-11-26 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)
1899-01-12 - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
1899-03-26 - James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
1899-04-11 - Percy L Julian, chemist (drugs for treatment of arthritis)
1899-04-16 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
1901-02-20 - Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
1901-02-28 - Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
1902-06-16 - Kornelis Posthumus, Dutch chemist
1902-07-10 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950)
1902-08-10 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1903-02-26 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1903-03-04 - William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1903-03-24 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
1904-09-04 - Julian Hill, research chemist
1906-01-11 - Albert Hofmann, Switzerland, chemist (discovered LSD)
1906-08-17 - Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer
1907-01-14 - Derek Richter, British neuro chemist (Aspects of learning & memory)
1907-04-08 - Maurice Stacey, chemist
1907-10-02 - Alexander Robertus, organic chemist
1907-10-02 - Lord Todd, chemist
1908-06-10 - Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945)
1910-03-01 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1910-03-11 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
1910-05-12 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
1910-06-16 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
1911-04-08 - Melvin Calvin, US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961)
1912-04-19 - Glenn T Seaborg, American chemist (AEC, Plutonium, Nobel 1951)
1913-04-21 - Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones)
1914-02-18 - Edward George Edwards, chemist
1914-05-19 - Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
1914-10-28 - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist (Nobel 1952)
1915-11-30 - Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
1916-03-26 - Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
1917-04-10 - Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
1917-06-01 - William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917-09-07 - John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918-06-08 - John D. Roberts, American chemist
1918-07-31 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1918-09-08 - Derek Barton, British chemist (Nobel 1969)
1918-10-04 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1918-11-10 - Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
1919-07-31 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz)
1919-12-09 - William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1920-09-29 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
1920-12-06 - George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1921-07-14 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
1921-08-01 - Vic Marshall, chemist
1922-01-09 - Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
1923-10-29 - Carl Djerassi, Austrian chemist
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 172 of 172
1952-11-29 - Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/US chemist, dies at 85
1953-09-16 - Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro-chemistry), dies
1955-08-12 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1956-09-22 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
1957-02-25 - Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
1957-08-05 - Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80
1957-08-16 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
1958-04-16 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1958-06-20 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1958-09-17 - Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71
1958-09-30 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph-stipulation), dies at 79
1962-09-08 - Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84
1964-11-06 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1965-06-19 - James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin), dies at 72
1965-10-13 - Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948), dies at 66
1966-07-05 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1967-07-31 - Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies
1968-07-28 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89
1970-12-08 - Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77
1971-01-23 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
1971-02-25 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1971-05-04 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
1971-06-15 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1971-06-18 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1972-05-04 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1972-09-14 - Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70
1975-02-08 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1976-02-22 - Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84
1976-09-26 - Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1976-10-05 - Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1978-06-07 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1978-12-11 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1979-05-02 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1979-07-08 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1981-01-05 - Harold C Urey, US chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87
1982-03-28 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1982-04-09 - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies
1985-09-09 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1986-10-22 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1987-04-11 - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
1987-05-27 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1987-11-28 - Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
1988-12-04 - Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (b. 1899)
1991-08-23 - Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
1991-09-09 - Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies
1994-07-29 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, chemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78
1995-01-18 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
1995-08-21 - Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61
1996-01-10 - Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88
1996-01-27 - Julian Hill, research chemist, dies at 91
1996-03-14 - Vic Marshall, chemist, dies at 74
1996-08-01 - Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
1996-09-12 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86
1996-09-26 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75
1998-01-09 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
1998-03-16 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1999-02-25 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1999-03-03 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
2001-06-17 - Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1919)
2001-10-07 - Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
2002-07-28 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2002-08-31 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2003-05-10 - Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and chess problem composer (b. 1937)
2003-05-28 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
2004-03-15 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2004-09-13 - Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
2004-12-19 - Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2005-10-28 - Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
2005-11-16 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
2007-02-20 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
2007-03-27 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008-04-29 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
