23rd August
Robert F. Curl Jr. was born on this day in 1933. American chemist who (with Richard E. Smalley and Sir Harold W. Kroto) discovered the first fullerene, a...
Total opens refurbished Carling Petrochemical Complex in France
Total has opened the revamped Carling-Saint-Avold petrochemical complex in eastern France after completion of three years of refurbishment works. In September 2013, Total adapted the Carling...
August 22nd
On this day in 1950, the pile achieved criticality in the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor (BGRR), the world's first nuclear reactor dedicated to the peaceful...
August 21st
Charles (-Frédéric) Gerhardt was born on this day in 1826. French chemist who, with Auguste Laurent, developed a classification of organic compounds. Like most chemists...
August 20th
Adolf von Baeyer died on this day in 1917. Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a German chemist who synthesized indigo (1880) and formulated its structure...
August 19th
On this day in 1887, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) used a balloon to ascend above the cloud cover to an altitude of 11,500 feet (3.5 km) to...
August 18th
On this day in 1868, Pierre Janssen discovered a previously unknown bright yellow line in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun during a solar eclipse...
The 35th Annual World Methanol Conference in Berlin, Germany on September 30, 2017
The 35th Annual World Methanol Conference and Workshop will be held in Berlin, Germany. The conference will take place over a full day on Saturday, September...