August 14th
Paul Sabatier died on this day in 1941. Organic chemist who shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1912 with Victor Grignard. Sabatier researched in catalytic organic synthesis, and discovered...
August 13th
John Ulric Nef died on this day in 1915. Swiss-American chemist whose studies demonstrated that carbon can have a valence (i.e., affinity for electrons) of two (such as...
August 11th
Cato Maximilian Guldberg was born on this day in 1836. Norwegian chemist who, with his brother-in-law Peter Waage, formulated the law of mass action (1864), which details the effects...
August 10th
On this day in 1897, Dr. Felix Hoffmann successfully created a chemically pure and stable form of acetylsalicylic acid. His handwritten laboratory notes—aspirin's “birth certificate”—suggested: “Through its physical characteristics...
August 9th
Count of Quaregna Amedeo Avogadro was born on this day in 1776. Italian chemist and physicist who found that at the same temperature and pressure...
August 8th
Germain Henri Hess was born on this day in 1802. Swiss-Russian chemist whose studies of heat in chemical reactions formed the foundation of thermochemistry. He...
August 7th
Famous chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius was died on this day in 1848. Swedish chemist who established the beginnings of modern chemistry. Among his contributions are...
August 6th
On this day in 1945, the first atomic bomb used in World War II was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The weapon, code-named “Little Boy,” was...