Chemistry Nobel Laureate worked on thermodynamics and cryogenics

125th Birthday: William Giauque

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

100th Anniversary: Death of Mitsuru Kuhara
First President of the Tokyo Chemical Society, a predecessor of the Chemical Society of Japan

150th Anniversary: Death of Otto Linné Erdmann
German chemist best known for his work on nickel, dye-stuffs, and the determination of atomic weights

150th Anniversary: Death of Thomas Graham
British chemist considered one of the founders of colloid chemistry

25th Anniversary: Death of Richard Laurence Millington Synge
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1952, honored for the invention of partition chromatography