Joseph Swan's research led to developments in photography and the invention of a practical incandescent light bulb

Michel Eugène Chevreul, born in Angers, France, on August 31, 1787, is best known for his research into fats

Fritz Haber, who received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements, died January 29, 1934

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized November 16, 1938, by Albert Hofmann

120th Birthday of Sir Chistopher Ingold, one of the chief pioneers of physical-organic chemistry

Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Prize laureate 2001, celebrates his 75th birthday

A biochemist who overcame religious and sexual discrimination

The Clemmensen reduction of ketones and aldehydes is the simplest direct method for converting the carbonyl group into a methylene group

Louis de Broglie is best known for his theory of the wave-particle duality of matter

Agnes Pockels was a pioneer in the field of surface tension and the measurement of surface films