Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac born on 6 December 1778 at Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat in France as the eldest of five children. He formulated two gas laws, analyzed the...
July 21st – American chemist Rudolph Arthur Marcus was born on this day in 1923
He developed electron transfer theory, which describes the thermodynamics and kinetics of how electrons are transferred between chemicals during a reaction. The theory helps to...
July 20th – James Woodhouse was elected professor of “Chemistry” at the University of Pennsylvania on this day in 1795
The American Chemist founded the Chemical Society of Philadelphia and authored numerous works on chemistry, including the first book of directed chemical experiments.. He also...
July 19th – French chemist and pharmacist Pierre-Joseph Pelletier died on this day in 1842
He was one of the pioneers of the study of plant alkaloid chemistry. Alkaloids are organic compounds that induce various effects in medicine, including painkillers...
Molecule of the Week – Lawsone
Hamımızın yaxından tanıdığı xına bir sıra mədəniyyətlərdə önəmli yer tutur. Xınanın təxminən 5000 illik keçmişi vardır. Dəri, dırnaq və saçda qırmızımtıl qəhvəyi bir rəng buraxan...
July 18th- British scientist Robert Hooke was born on this day in 1635
The Englishman Robert Hooke was an architect, natural philosopher and brilliant scientist, best known for his law of elasticity (Hooke's law), his book Micrographia, published...
July 17th – English chemist Sir Frederick Abel was born on this day in 1827
One of the most important of his investigations had to do with the manufacture of guncotton, and he developed a process, consisting essentially of reducing...
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie was a French physicist, physical chemist, and Nobel laureate. He was born in Paris on 15 may 1859, son of Eugene Curie and...
