Inventor of breakthrough method for sequencing proteins

100th Birthday: Pehr Victor Edman

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

100th Anniversary: Paul Ehrlich’s Death
Nobel Laureate, eminent immunologist, and founder of chemotherapy

100th Birthday: Albert Ghiorso
Nuclear researcher and co-discoverer of 12 elements