1999 Death "Glen Seaborg, Ph.D", chemist, won a Nobel for discovering plutonium and other elements, dies at 86 1996 Death Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75 1996 Death Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86 1996 Death Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99 1996 Death Julian Hill, research chemist, dies at 91 1996 Death Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88 1995 Death Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61 1994 Death Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, chemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78 1991 Death Edwin M McMillan, U.S., chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies 1987 Death Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67 1982 Death Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies 1981 Death Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87 1976 Death Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84 1972 Death Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70 1971 Death Donald Dexter Van Slyke, U.S. chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88 1970 Death Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77 1968 Death Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 1967 Death Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies 1965 Death Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948), dies at 66 1962 Death Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84 1958 Death Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph-stipulation), dies at 79 1958 Death Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71 1958 Death Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies 1957 Death Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80 1957 Death Mark Aldanov, Mark A Landau, Russian/French chemist, dies at 70 1953 Death Colin G Fink, U.S. chemist (electro-chemistry), dies 1952 Death Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/U.S. chemist, dies at 85 1949 Death Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (actinium), dies 1949 Death Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64 1947 Death Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67 1944 Death Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80 1942 Birthday Dick K J Tommel, chemist, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State, 1994- 1941 Death Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 1940 Death Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65 1939 Death Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van olien), dies 1935 Birthday Robin Clark, chemist, FRS 1934 Death "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies 1934 Birthday Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member, CDA 1934 Death Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65 1933 Birthday Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer 1932 Death Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies 1931 Death Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83 1929 Death Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64 1929 Birthday John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist, Nobel 1986 1928 Birthday James D. Watson, chemist, co-discovered structure of DNA 1928 Death Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies 1927 Death Svante August Arrhenius, chemist, dies 1927 Birthday Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967 1925 Birthday James Saunders, English chemist/playwright, Ark 1923 Death Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies 1921 Birthday Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist 1919 Death Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies 1919 Birthday Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer, Survival in Aushchwitz 1919 Death William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 1918 Birthday Ernst Fischer, German chemist, Nobel 1973 1918 Birthday Derek Barton, British chemist, Nobel 1969 1917 Death JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies 1917 Death James Mason Crafts, U.S. chemist, dies at 78 1917 Birthday Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist, Nobel 1965 1916 Death William Ramsey, chemist, dies 1916 Birthday Christian B. Anfinsen, U.S. chemist, cell physiology, Nobel 1972 1915 Birthday Henry Taube, chemist, Nobel 1983 1914 Death Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies 1914 Birthday Edward George Edwards, chemist 1912 Birthday Glen T. Seaborg, U.S. chemist, AEC, plutonium, Nobel 1951 1911 Birthday Melvin Calvin, U.S. chemist, photosynthesis, Nobel 1961 1911 Death Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80 1911 Death Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58 1910 Birthday Richard Maling Barrer, chemist 1910 Birthday Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist, penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964 1910 Death Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85 1910 Birthday Robert H. G. Havemann, German chemist 1909 Death Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83 1908 Birthday Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist, penicillin, Nobel 1945 1907 Birthday Alexander Robertus, organic chemist 1907 Birthday Maurice Stacey, chemist 1907 Death [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 1907 Death Hendrik W. Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52 1907 Death Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72 1907 Birthday Derek Richter, British neuro chemist, Aspects of learning and memory 1906 Birthday Hazel Bishop, chemist/cosmetics manufacturer 1906 Death Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies 1904 Birthday Julian Hill, research chemist 1902 Death Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75 1902 Birthday Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel 1950 1902 Birthday Kornelis Posthumus, Dutch chemist 1902 Death John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 1901 Death Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 1901 Birthday Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962 1901 Birthday Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist 1899 Birthday Percy L. Julian, chemist, drugs for treatment of arthritis 1899 Birthday James B. Connant, chemist/college president, Yale 1899 Birthday Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist, DDT-Nobel 1948 1898 Birthday William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist, textiles 1897 Birthday Ronald G. W. Norrish, British chemist, Nobel 1967 1897 Birthday Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1950 1896 Birthday Robert Mulliken, U.S., chemist/physicist, Nobel 1966 1894 Birthday Isaac M Kolthoff, chemist, Massenanalyse 1893 Birthday Christopher K Ingold, English chemist 1892 Death Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60 1892 Death Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 1891 Birthday Fritz Feigl, Austria, chemist, spot tests 1891 Birthday Michael Polany, Hungarian and English,chemist, economist and sociologist 1890 Birthday Robert Ley, German chemist/MP, NSDAP 1889 Death Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist, dies 1888 Death Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, dies at 45 1887 Birthday Friedrich A. Paneth, Austrian/British chemist 1886 Birthday Mark Aldanov, Landau, Russian/French chemist/writer 1886 Birthday Mark Aldanov, Landau, Russian/French chemist, Myslitel, 1886 Event Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke 1886 Birthday Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone, Nobel 1950 1885 Death Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71 1885 Death Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73 1884 Birthday Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist, benzine from brown coal, Nobel 1884 Birthday Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids, Nobel 1926 1884 Birthday Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist, Nobel 1936 1883 Birthday Donald Dexter Van Slyke, U.S. chemist, Micromanometric analysis 1881 Birthday Colin G Fink, U.S. chemist, electro chemistry 1881 Birthday Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher, Nobel '53 1880 Birthday Ernst Laqueur, chemist/pharmacology/psychology, sexual hormones 1879 Birthday Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist, ph tests 1879 Birthday Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium 1879 Birthday Johannes Bronsted, Danish physical chemist, acid-base reactions 1878 Death Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1877 Birthday Heinrich Wieland, German chemist, bile acids-Nobel 1927 1874 Birthday Karl Bosch, German chemist, BASF, Nobel 1931 1874 Birthday Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist, Actinium 1873 Death Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69 1870 Birthday Wilhelm Normann, German chemist, hardening of oils 1869 Birthday Ernst J. Cohen, Dutch chemist 1868 Death Christian Schonbein, German chemist, dies at about 69 1868 Birthday Theodore William Richards, chemist, atomic weights, Nobel-1914 1867 Birthday Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist 1866 Birthday Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1913 1865 Birthday Richard Zsigmondy, born in Germany, chemist, Nobel-1925 1864 Birthday Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist, Nobel 1920 1863 Birthday Arthur D Little, U.S., chemist, patented rayon 1863 Birthday Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/U.S. chemist, bakelite 1861 Birthday Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist 1860 Birthday Johannis J van Laar, Dutch chemist, thermodynamics 1859 Birthday Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist, Nobel 1903 1854 Birthday Hendrik W. Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist, Heterogenen Gleichgewichte 1853 Birthday Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909 1853 Death Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies 1852 Birthday William Ramsay, chemist 1852 Birthday [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, Paris, France, chemist, Nobel 1906 1852 Birthday Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Netherlands, physical chemist, Nobel 1901 1852 Death Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 1850 Death Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies 1850 Death William Prout, physician/chemist, dies 1848 Death Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight), dies at 68 1847 Birthday Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist, Nobel 1910 1845 Death Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77 1844 Death John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 1842 Birthday Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, American Home Economics Association - 1st President 1842 Birthday Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet, Le Hareng Saur 1842 Birthday James Dewar, Scottish chemist/physicist, Dewarfles/cordiet 1841 Death Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53 1839 Birthday James Mason Crafts, U.S. chemist, Friedel-Crafts-synthesis 1839 Birthday Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist 1837 Death Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87 1835 Birthday J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel 1905 1834 Birthday Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist, Periodic Table 1834 Birthday Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist, discovered periodic table of the elements 1832 Death Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies 1832 Birthday William Crookes, English chemist/physicist, Crookes-pipe, thallium 1831 Birthday Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist 1830 Birthday Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist 1830 Birthday Francois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist, law of Raoult 1827 Birthday Frederick A. Able, English chemist/inventor, cordiet 1827 Event English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches 1826 Birthday Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, Reaction of Cannizzaro 1825 Birthday Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist, Erlenemyer kolf 1821 Death Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 1817 Birthday Hermann Kopp, German chemist, Jahresbericht of Chemistry 1817 Birthday John Glover, English chemist, sulfuric acid 1817 Birthday Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist 1817 Death Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 1813 Birthday Thomas Andrews, Belfast Ireland, chemist/physicist, ozone 1812 Birthday Hermann von Fehling, German chemist, Fehling's reagens 1811 Birthday Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist, Bunsen Burner 1810 Birthday Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist 1810 Death Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies 1804 Death Joseph Priestley, English / U.S0 theologist, philosopher. and chemist, dies at 70 1803 Birthday Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, agricultural chemics 1802 Birthday Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist 1799 Death Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71 1795 Birthday Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist, Chinoline 1794 Death Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined 1786 Death Carl W.Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, dies at 43 1785 Birthday Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician and chemist, electric car 1835 1779 Birthday Freiherr Jons J Berzelius, Swedish chemist, atomic weight 1778 Birthday Hunphry Davy, English chemist, discovered some elements 1777 Birthday Hans Christian Oersted, Den, physicist/chemist, View of Chemical Law 1771 Birthday E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist, Du Pont 1763 Birthday Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist, discovered chromium, beryllium 1760 Birthday Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, discovered yttrium 1750 Birthday Martinus van Marum, Dutch chemist/physicist, Homo Diluvii Testus 1743 Birthday Martin H Klaproth, German chemist, uranium 1742 Birthday Carl W. Scheele, Swedish pharmacist/chemist, lemon acid 1731 Birthday Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist, discovered hydrogen 1728 Birthday Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist 1682 Death Rupert, prince of Palts/Admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician, dies at 62 1633 Death Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies 1627 Birthday Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author, experiments with color 1619 Birthday Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician 1580 Birthday Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Belgian chemist, found boiling pt temp
