🧪 Chemistry & Wonder Materials Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (18 Entries)

1. [1829] Humphry Davy — Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and an early form of arc lamp.
2. [1838] Carl Gustaf Mosander — Mosander discovered lanthanum in 1838.
3. [1860] Robert Bunsen — He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
4. [1874] Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff — Van 't Hoff made seminal contributions to stereochemistry by formulating the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom in 1874.
5. [1874] Per Teodor Cleve — In 1874 he theorised that didymium was in fact two elements; this theory was confirmed in 1885 when Carl Auer von Welsbach discovered neodymium and praseodymium.
6. [1903] Marie Curie — She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, "for their joint researches on the radioactivity phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".
7. [1908] Kikunae Ikeda — By 1908, he had isolated brown crystals of glutamic acid (glutamate) which conveyed the characteristic flavor.
8. [1911] Casimir Funk — He first isolated vitamin B1 from rice bran in 1911 and coined the term "vitamines" in 1912.
9. [1912] Otto Stern — in Physical Chemistry from the University of Breslau in 1912, focusing his research on the kinetic theory of osmotic pressure.
10. [1919] Irving Langmuir — Furthermore, he published the seminal 1919 article detailing his concentric theory of atomic structure.
11. [1920] Satyendra Nath Bose — He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics, and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
12. [1921] Michael Polanyi — He pioneered the theory of fibre diffraction analysis in 1921, and the dislocation theory of plastic deformation of ductile metals and other materials in 1934.
13. [1925] Lars Onsager — In 1925, he arrived at a correction to the Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions, to specify Brownian movement of ions in solution, and during 1926 published it.
14. [1933] Edwin McMillan — A graduate of California Institute of Technology, he earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1933, and joined the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory where he discovered oxygen-15 and beryllium-10.
15. [1938] Otto Hahn — In 1938, Hahn, Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
16. [1946] Marguerite Perey — She subsequently earned her Doctorate of PhysicsINK_0@@ from the Sorbonne in 1946, focusing her thesis on her newly discovered element 87.
17. [1960] Heisuke Hironaka — Returning to Harvard in 1960, Hironaka received his PhD for his thesis On the Theory of Birational Blowing-up.
18. [2014] Alexander Shulgin — Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) was an American biochemist who synthesized and tested over 200 psychedelic and related chemical compounds.