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William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, discovered the elements palladium and rhodium; Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), American chemist, 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Charles de Worms (1903–1979), English chemist and lepidopterist; Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction
Two others have won Nobel Prizes twice, one in chemistry and one in another subject: Maria Skłodowska-Curie (physics in 1903, chemistry in 1911) and Linus Pauling (chemistry in 1954, peace in 1962). [6] As of 2023, the prize has been awarded to 192 individuals, including eight women (Maria Skłodowska-Curie being the first to be awarded in ...
Kenichi Fukui (福井 謙一, Fukui Ken'ichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. [1] He became the first person of East Asian ancestry to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry when he won the 1981 prize with Roald Hoffmann, for their independent investigations into the mechanisms of chemical reactions.
[177] [178] His description reads: "A remarkably versatile scientist, structural chemist Linus Pauling (1901–1994) won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules. His work in establishing the field of molecular biology; his studies of hemoglobin led to the classification of ...
Hubert Newcombe Alyea (October 10, 1903 – October 19, 1996) [1] was an American professor of chemistry at Princeton University. His explosive chemistry demonstrations earned him the nickname "Dr. Boom". He was famous around the world for his "zany, eccentric" public lectures on science, which "were as much performance as professorship". [2]
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 ...
Seeman's writing on education includes the incorporation of history and biography into chemistry curricula. [25] Seeman produces short films or videos on the history and sociology of chemistry, for education and historical use. [15] He produced an accompanying video for the book Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence. [26]
The chemist Joseph Clutton published an analysis of Ward's pills in A True and Candid Relation of the Good and Bad Effects of Joshua Ward's Pill and Drop in 1736. He found that two of the pills contained antimony and cobalt and the other arsenic. [11] In 1736, Ward set up the Great Vitriol Works in Twickenham to produce sulphuric acid.