Inventor of the eponymous aldol condensation

150th Birthday: Emil Knoevenagel

100th Anniversary: Clara Immerwahr's Death
A role model for her pursuit of science in spite of obstacles and for her strong moral convictions

75th Anniversary: Carl Bosch’s Death
Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the Haber-Bosch process (1874 – 1940)

200th Birthday: Maxwell Simpson
Eminent Irish organic chemist was the first to synthesize succinic acid

75th Anniversary: Discovery of Carbon 14
Enabling breakthroughs in biochemistry and archaeology

150th Anniversary: Kekulé's Benzene Structure
Kekulé's groundbreaking idea was published in 1865

60th Anniversary: William M. Burton's Death
William M. Burton developed the first commercially successful cracking process for crude oil

50th Anniversary: Hans von Euler-Chelpin's Death
Hans von Euler-Chelpin received the Nobel prize for his work on the role of enzymes in the fermentation of sugar

Dorothy Hodgkin – Pioneer of the Study of Biomolecules by XRay Crystallography
1964 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for "the determination of the structures of important biochemical substances by means of the X-ray technique"

150th Birthday: Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst is well known for his work in the areas of electrochemistry and thermodynamics