Italian chemist and pioneer of photochemistry died 100 years ago

Giacomo Ciamician (1857 – 1922)

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

150th Birthday: Victor Grignard
French chemist known for Grignard reagents and the C–C bond-forming Grignard reaction

50th Anniversary: Death of Robert Corey
American biochemist known for his role in discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet