What happened during this night in 1922?
Author Archive for: Catharina Goedecke (184)
150th Birthday: Lafayette B. Mendel
American biochemist known for the co-discovery of vitamin A
Giacomo Ciamician (1857 – 1922)
Italian chemist and pioneer of photochemistry died 100 years ago
Isabella Karle (1921 – 2017)
U.S. chemist known for her work on X-ray crystallography and the Manhattan Project
150th Anniversary: Death of Adolph Strecker
Chemist well-known for the Strecker amino acid synthesis
50th Anniversary: Death of Arne Tiselius
Chemistry Nobel Laureate honored for his research on electrophoresis
100th Birthday: Robert G. Parr
American theoretical chemist co-authored one of the most highly cited chemistry papers of all time
125th Birthday: Gerty Cori
Nobel Laureate known for the co-discovery of the Cori cycle and the Cori ester
115th Birthday: Allene Jeanes
American chemist known for the development of large-scale dextran production and xanthan gum
100th Anniversary: Death of Ludwig Knorr
German chemist known for the Knorr quinoline synthesis, the Knorr pyrrole synthesis, and the Paal–Knorr synthesis