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Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals; Raymond Davis, Jr. (1914–2006), American physical chemist; Serena DeBeer (born 1973, American chemist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion; Peter Debye (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Best Place on Earth was the recipient of the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize, [2] the 2016 Edward Lewis Wallant, [3] and was long listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award in 2013. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, [4] a Kirkus Review Best Debut Fiction of 2016, [5] and has been published internationally.
Boyle, in this book, became the first to argue that experiment should form the basis of all theory, a common practice in chemistry today. He also expounded on a rudimentary atomic theory and the existence of chemical elements beyond the classic earth, fire, air, and water. [5]
"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds" [73] Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996) British 1974 Paul J. Flory (1910–1985) American "for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules" [74] 1975 John Warcup Cornforth
Sir William Ramsay KCB FRS FRSE (/ ˈ r æ m z i /; 2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same ...
American protein chemist at Harvard, very influential in protein research, and author (with Edwin Cohn) of Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Konstantin Efetov (b. 1958). Ukrainian biochemist at Crimea State Medical University, known for work in molecular immunology, evolutionary biology, and biosystematics.
A year in Svalbard is marked by two unusual periods of light: polar night and midnight sun. Polar night runs from mid-November to the end of January, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon.
Robert Burns Woodward ForMemRS HonFRSE (April 10, 1917 – July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist.He is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century, [3] having made many key contributions to the subject, especially in the synthesis of complex natural products and the determination of their molecular structure.