Nobel Laureate best known for co-discovering the structure of DNA

100th Birthday: Francis Crick

100th Anniversary: Death of Adolph Frank
German chemist recognized the potential of potash for fertilizer production

100th Birthday: Pehr Victor Edman
Inventor of breakthrough method for sequencing proteins

100th Birthday: Christian B. Anfinsen
Distinguished biochemist explored important aspects of protein folding

150th Birthday: Moses Gomberg
Eminent organic chemist and "father of radical chemistry"

300th Birthday: Antonio de Ulloa
Spanish scientist, explorer, and naval officer credited with the first description of platinum

75th Anniversary: Discovery of Plutonium
Element 94 was first produced and isolated at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in 1940

100th Birthday: Henry Taube
Nobel Laureate Taube made major contributions to coordination chemistry

50th Anniversary: Woodward-Hoffmann Rules
In 1965, Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann explained the stereospecificity of pericyclic reactions

50th Anniversary: Hermann Staudinger’s Death
Nobel Laureate Staudinger was the father of polymer chemistry and discovered the ketenes