Blaise Pascal contested the idea that nature abhors a vacuum and is the answer to Guess the Chemist (8)

350th Anniversary: Blaise Pascal's Death

10th Anniversary: Archer Martin's Death
Celebrating the life of A. Martin, pioneer of partition chromatography and answer to Guess the Chemist (7), on the anniversary of his death

100th Anniversary of the Discovery of X-ray Diffraction
X-ray diffraction proved that X-rays are waves and the space lattice theory of crystals. Its discoverer is the answer to Guess the Chemist (6)

100th Birthday of Herbert C. Brown
Herbert C. Brown won the Nobel Prize for his work on organoboranes and hydroboration; also the answer to Guess the Chemist (5)

150th Anniversary of First Pasteurization Test
Louis Pasteur, invented pasteurization and proved the germ theory of disease. He is also the answer to Guess the Chemist (4)

200th Birthday of Emil Erlenmeyer
Why is a glass vessel with a narrow neck (narrow-neck flask) or a wider neck (wide-neck flask) called an Erlenmeyer flask?

Who Was Wolfgang Ernst Pauli?
The Nobel Laueate Wolfgang Pauli was born 125 years ago, on April 25, 1900, in Vienna, Austria, and is considered one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century

Curiosity Drives Scientific Observations
Albertus Magnus (c. 1200–1280) was a medieval naturalist and polymath who aimed to fully understand the knowledge of his time and present it clearly in textbooks

Joseph Priestley And the Discovery of Oxygen in 1774
Priestley's great discoveries, including oxygen and other gases, electricity, and soda water, as well as his holding on to old chemical beliefs

Loney Clinton Gordon and the Pertussis Vaccine
African-American chemist worked on the development of an effective pertussis vaccine