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...
July 22nd- Ukrainian-American biochemist Selman Waksman was born on this day in 1888
He coined the term ‘antibiotic’ and discovered streptomycin, the first drug that was effective against tuberculosis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
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...
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...