July 31th
Friedrich Wöhler was born on this day in 1800. German chemist who co-discovered vanadium. Having studied first medicine, then mineralogy, it was chemistry that became...
July 30th
Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal died on this day in 1832. French chemist who authored the first book on industrial chemistry. He also coined the name...
July 29th
In 1870, America's first asphalt pavement was laid in Newark, N.J. Previously, coal tar was used for many pavements laid in the 1860s. The...
July 27th
Bertram Borden Boltwood was born on this day in 1870. He was an American chemist and physicist whose studied the radioactivity of uranium and thorium, and their...
July 26th
Paul Walden was born on this day in 1863. Latvian chemist who, while teaching at Riga, discovered the Walden inversion, a reversal of stereochemical configuration that...
July 25th – Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev
Russian chemist Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev was born on this day in 1874. He developed a method for industrial production of synthetic rubber. In 1910, while researching processes...
July 24th – Sir William Abney
Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney was born on this day in 1843. English astronomer and chemist who investigated colour photography and colour vision. He pioneered...
July 23rd- Organic chemist Vladimir Prelog was born on this day in 1923
Yugoslavian-Swiss chemist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John W. Cornforth for his work on the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Stereochemistry is the study of the...
