Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion.  It was fuelled by liquid oxygen (O2) and gasoline, and reached a...

He was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on radioisotopes and their use as tracers in studying the chemical processes within...

He is known for inventing the Beckmann thermometer. Enter Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853-1923) was born in Solingen, the German town famed for its knives. The son...

Antoine-Jerome Balard announced the discovery of bromine (Br) on this day in 1826. The French chemist was an unknown young laboratory assistant when he discovered...