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Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energy; Henri Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Mario J. Molina (1943–2020), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Jacques Monod (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...
American chemist [52] Kathleen Curtis: 1892−1994: 102: New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand [53] Max Day: 1915–2017: 101: Australian ecologist [54] Sukh Dev: 1923–2024: 101: Indian organic chemist [55] Theodor Otto Diener: 1921–2023: 102: Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of ...
While at Chicago, he met Canadian history graduate student Irene Wiseman. [19] [20] They married in 1951. [10] [7] The couple had no children. [10] Irene died in 2016. [20] Goodenough turned 100 on July 25, 2022. [21] He died at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas, on June 25, 2023, one month shy of what would have been his 101st ...
1939 – Birth of Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate; 1959 - U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon; 1962 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R; 2001 – Death of Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
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.
1853 - Birth of Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932) 1859 - A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service; 1865 - Death of William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (b. 1805) 1877 - Birth of Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956) 1923 - Birth of René Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1858 - The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up; 1888 - Death of Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845) 1899 - Birth of Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988) 1919 - Birth of Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005) 1958 - Death of Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
Carl Bosch (German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈbɔʃ] ⓘ; 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. [2] He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.