French chemist and co-discoverer of the basic concepts of organic stereochemistry
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100th Birthday: Rosalind Franklin
British chemist and X-ray crystallographer made important contributions to understanding the structure of DNA
100th Anniversary: Death of Ludwig Gattermann
German chemist known for the Gattermann reaction
125th Birthday: William Giauque
Chemistry Nobel Laureate worked on thermodynamics and cryogenics
125th Anniversary: Death of Lothar Meyer
German chemist and physician developed one of the first periodic tables of chemical elements
350th Anniversary: Death of Johann Rudolph Glauber
Seventeenth century alchemist and apothecary considered one of the earliest chemical engineers
100th Anniversary: Death of Carl Alexander von Martius
German chemist developed important, industrially used dyes
100th Anniversary: Death of Wilhelm Pfeffer
German chemist, pharmacists, and botanist invented the "Pfeffer cell" to measure osmotic pressure

100th Anniversary: Death of Julia Lermontova
First Russian female doctor in chemistry
150th Anniversary: Death of Otto Linné Erdmann
German chemist best known for his work on nickel, dye-stuffs, and the determination of atomic weights