German pharmacist and chemist well-known for the discovery of the Beckmann rearrangement and the development of the Beckmann differential thermometer

100th Anniversary: Death of Ernst Otto Beckmann

Severo Ochoa and the Synthesis of RNA
Spanish biochemist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for work on polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase)

120th Birthday: Giulio Natta
Italian Nobel Laureate well-known for his work on Ziegler–Natta catalysts for polymer synthesis

300th Birthday: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish researcher discovered nickel and is considered a founder of modern mineralogy

200th Anniversary: Death of Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist well-known for work on modern nomenclature in chemistry, equilibria, dyes, and bleaches

150th Birthday: Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist was a pioneer in food safety and refrigeration

Asima Chatterjee – Pioneer of Her Time
One of India's most famous female chemists

100th Anniversary: Death of Philippe Barbier
French organic chemist known as a pioneer of organometallic chemistry

125th Birthday: Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel Laureate developed a method for vitamin C synthesis and isolated cortisone

125th Birthday: Georg Wittig
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry well-known for the Wittig reaction