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Elizabeth J. Feinler (born 1931), American information scientist and past director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute; Marye Anne Fox (1947–2021), American chemist and university chancellor; Dolph Lundgren (born 1957), Masters in Chemistry, Swedish actor
Friedrich Wöhler FRS(For) HonFRSE (German:; 31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form.
Description: This book was intended as an introduction to new theories in chemistry and as such, was one of the first Chemistry textbooks. [9] Importance: Introduction, Influence. Aside from being one of the first chemistry textbooks, the book was one of the first to state the Law of conservation of mass, define a chemical element, and contain ...
Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist.In 1990, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", [3] specifically retrosynthetic analysis.
Asima Chatterjee was born on 23 September 1917 in Kolkata, India. [3] She was born into a middle-class family which, at the time, meant no education for females. She was also the eldest child with a younger brother which meant having more responsibilities in an Indian family as you become the face of the new generation. [4]
Crown ether coordinating a potassium ion. Charles John Pedersen (Japanese: 安井 良男, Yasui Yoshio, October 3, 1904 – October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, and at DuPont's Jackson ...
Shakhashiri has also spoken about changes in scientific practice, in particular the ways in which boundaries between chemistry and biology are blurring as scientists learn more in those fields. [15] More recently, he has called for active scientific discourse on climate change and other significant societal issues.
Besides his work for periodicals he wrote numerous books [12] Kolbe served for more than a decade as what, in modern terms, would be understood the senior editor of the Journal für Praktische Chemie (Journal of practical chemistry, from 1870 to 1884), Kolbe was sometimes so severely critical of the work of others, especially after about 1874 ...