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Frederick Sanger is one out of three laureates to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice in the same subject, in 1958 and 1980. John Bardeen, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 and 1972, and Karl Barry Sharpless, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 and 2022, are the others. Two others have won Nobel Prizes twice, one in ...
Richard R. Schrock. Richard Schrock during the Opening Ceremony of 44th International Chemistry Olympiad (2012) Born. Richard Royce Schrock. (1945-01-04) January 4, 1945 (age 79) Berne, Indiana, United States. Nationality. American. Alma mater.
A. Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist. Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist. Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting. Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds. Peter Agre (born 1949), American chemist and doctor, 2003 ...
Jane Marcet (/ ˈ m ɑːr s ɛ t /; née Haldimand; 1 January 1769 – 28 June 1858) was an English salonnière of Republic of Geneva descent, [1] and an innovative writer of popular, explanatory science books.
Wiley-Interscience, 3rd edition, 1999, ISBN 0-471-16019-9. Wiley-Interscience, 4th edition, 2007, ISBN 0-471-69754-0. Wiley-Interscience, 5th edition, 2014, ISBN 9781118057483. Description: A comprehensive reference for the usage of protecting groups in organic synthesis. Importance: A reference publication.
University of Chicago, Purdue University. Doctoral advisor. Hermann Irving Schlesinger. Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.
Robert Boyle FRS [2] (/ b ɔɪ l /; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.