75th Guess the Chemist - ChemistryViews

ChemViews Magazine has just published the 75th Guess the Chemist. Since 2011, the quiz has covered many eminent scientists who have made important discoveries for chemical research, significant inventions for everyday life, or both.

A closer look at the names behind many scientific discoveries can show the amazing things chemists and chemistry can do. Read about the interesting life stories of famous chemists and try to solve the newest question (Guess the Chemist 75).

To celebrate the 75th installment of the quiz, you have the chance to win one of three power banks if your answer is correct. The closing date is March 10, 2018.

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1		Robert Boyle Discovered Boyle’s law, which describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas

2		Agnes Pockels Pioneered research in the field of surface tension and the measurement of surface films

3		Louis de Broglie Proposed the theory of the wave-particle duality of matter

4		Louis Pasteur Invented pasteurization, which conserves food by killing pathogens

5		Herbert C. Brown Introduced hydroborations to organic chemistry and co-discovered sodium borohydride

6		Max von Laue Discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals

7		Archer John Porter Martin Invented partition chromatography together with Richard Synge

8		Blaise Pascal Made important contributions to probability theory and the understanding of the equilibrium of fluids

9		Joji Sakurai Was the first chemistry professor at Tokyo University and helped found the Japanese research institute RIKEN

10		Tetsuo Nozoe Worked on the isolation of natural products and collected over 4000 signatures from famous scientists

11		Alfred Nobel Invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prize in his will

12		Ellen Swallow Richards Was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an environmental chemist

13		Theodore William Richards Determined the exact atomic weights of many chemical elements

14		Anders Gustav Ekeberg Discovered the transition metal tantalum

15		Kurt Zosel Patented the use of supercritical fluid extraction in the decaffeination of coffee

16		Zefram Cochrane Invents the fictional faster-than-light “warp drive” in the Star Trek universe

17		Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin Discovered chromium and beryllium

18		Erik Christian Clemmensen Invented the Clemmensen reduction, which converts carbonyls to methylene groups

19		Mildred Cohn Made important contributions to the understanding of enzymatic reactions

20		Friedrich Heinrich August Klatte Received the first patent for polyvinyl chloride (PVC)

21		Ryoji Noyori Developed chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions using ruthenium–BINAP complexes

22		Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold Performed pioneering work on reaction mechanisms and coined terms such as nucleophilic and electrophilic

23		Albert Hofmann Discovered the psychopharmacological effects of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

24		Friedrich Bergius Developed the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal

25		Fritz Haber Co-invented the Haber-Bosch process for the synthesis of ammonia (see also Guess the Chemist (40))

26		Leo Hendrik Baekeland Invented bakelite, one of the first synthetic plastics

27		James Mason Crafts Co-developed the Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions, which can functionalize aromatic rings

28		Michel Eugène Chevreul Studied fatty acids and improved soap and candle production

29		Sir Joseph Wilson Swan Was one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb

30		Walther Nernst Is best known for the Nernst equation, which gives the potential of a half-cell in electrochemistry

31		Dorothy Hodgkin Pioneered the study of biomolecules by X-ray crystallography

32		Linus Pauling Elucidated the quantum mechanical nature of the chemical bond

33		Jean-Marie Lehn Made important contributions to the inception of supramolecular chemistry

34		Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen Discovered critical details of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism

35		Hans von Euler-Chelpin Explained the enzymatic fermentation of sugar

36		William M. Burton Developed the first commercially successful thermal cracking method for producing gasoline

37		Friedrich August Kekulé Assigned the cyclic structure to benzene

38		Martin Kamen Confirmed the existence of the carbon isotope ¹⁴C, which is used in radiocarbon dating

39		Maxwell Simpson Performed the first synthesis of succinic acid

40		Carl Bosch Co-invented the Haber-Bosch process for the synthesis of ammonia (see also Guess the Chemist (25))

41		Clara Immerwahr Was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in Germany and an activist for women’s rights

42		Emil Knoevenagel Developed the Knoevenagel condensation, a modified aldol condensation

43		Albert Ghiorso Co-discovered 12 chemical elements

44		Paul Ehrlich Made seminal contributions to immunology and developed treatments for syphilis and diphtheria

45		Hermann Staudinger Is considered the “father of polymer chemistry” and discovered the first ketene

46		Robert Burns Woodward Co-discovered the Woodward-Hoffmann rules, which predict the barrier heights of pericyclic reactions

47		Henry Taube Made seminal contributions to the understanding of electron exchange and ligand exchange in complexes

48		Glenn T. Seaborg Co-discovered ten transuranium elements

49		Antonio de Ulloa Is credited with the first scientific description of platinum

50		Moses Gomberg Discovered the first stable free radical

51		Christian B. Anfinsen Discovered important aspects of protein folding

52		Pehr Victor Edman Invented a breakthrough method for sequencing proteins

53		Adolph Frank Recognized the potential of potash for fertilizer production

54		Francis Crick Co-discovered the double helix structure of DNA

55		Sir William Ramsay Discovered multiple noble gases

56		Charles Frédéric Gerhardt Developed the concept of homologous series

57		William Lash Miller Was the leading proponent of Gibbs’ thermodynamics in North America

58		Samuel Eyde Co-developed the Birkeland–Eyde process for the fixation of nitrogen

59		Peter Debye Performed important investigations on dipole moments and on X-ray diffraction

60		Alfred Werner Developed the concept of the coordination number

61		Johan August Arfwedson Discovered lithium

62		Herbert A. Hauptman Laid the mathematical groundwork for solving crystal structures

63		John Kendrew Discovered the structure of myoglobin

64		Ines Mandl Discovered collagenase

65		August Wilhelm von Hofmann Made important contributions to organic chemistry

66		Daniel Vorländer Was a liquid crystal pioneer

67		Richard Kuhn Carried out groundbreaking work on the structures of vitamins

68		Johan Gadolin Discovered the first rare-earth compounds

69		Sir John Cornforth Explained the biosynthesis of cholesterol

70		Rodney R. Porter Discovered the structure of antibodies

71		Elmer McCollum Discovered the first vitamins

72		William Allen Miller Was a pioneer of spectral analysis and astrochemistry

73		Søren Sørensen Developed the concept of the pH scale

74		Hertha Sponer Co-developed the Birge–Sponer method

75		Guess the Chemist (75) The scientist we are looking for this time discovered several important chemical compounds. You can guess who it is until March 10, 2018.