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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 ...
Alchemy is still practiced today by a few, and alchemist characters still appear in recent fictional works and video games. Many alchemists are known from the thousands of surviving alchemical manuscripts and books. Some of their names are listed below.
Ali Al-Wardi, Iraqi Social Scientist specialized in the field of Social history. [citation needed] Adah Almutairi, Saudi chemist and inventor, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of California. [8] Ali H. Nayfeh, Palestinian-Jordanian-American mechanical engineer and the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award. [9]
German chemist and physiologist at the University of Munich, who overthrew the doctrine of vitalism by showing that cell-free yeast extract could catalyse fermentation, a discovery described by Arthur Kornberg as the beginning of biochemistry. 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1865 – Birth of Arthur Harden, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940) 1928 - An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston; 1934 – Birth of Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician; 1965 – Death of Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
The links in this column are to articles (or sections of articles) on the history and areas of chemistry for which the awards were presented. The links are intended only as a guide and explanation. For a full account of the work done by each Nobel laureate, please see the biography articles linked from the name column.
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.