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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 ...
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 ...
He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry for nearly 40 years. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Charles Tanford (1921–2009). American protein chemist at Duke University, known for analysis of the hydrophobic effect. Member Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. Ignacio Tinoco Jr. (1930–2016).
Western alchemy flourished in Greco-Roman Egypt, the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, and then in Europe from the 13th to the 18th centuries. Indian alchemists and Chinese alchemists made contributions to Eastern varieties of the art. Alchemy is still practiced today by a few, and alchemist characters still appear in recent fictional works ...
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.
[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 ...
The history of such philosophical theories that relate to chemistry can probably be traced back to every single ancient civilization. The common aspect in all these theories was the attempt to identify a small number of primary classical elements that make up all the various substances in nature.