Eminent female biochemist discovered collagenase

100th Birthday: Ines Mandl

100th Birthday: John Kendrew
Nobel Laureate discovered the structure of myoglobin

100th Birthday: Herbert A. Hauptman
Chemistry Nobel Laureate laid the mathematical groundwork for solving crystal structures

225th Birthday: Johan August Arfwedson
Swedish chemist and discoverer of lithium

150th Birthday: Alfred Werner
Coordination chemistry pioneer and Nobel Laureate

50th Anniversary: Death of Peter Debye
Physical chemist and Nobel Laureate known for his work on dipole moments

150th Birthday: Samuel Eyde
Norwegian engineer and industrialist co-developed Birkeland–Eyde process for the fixation of nitrogen

150th Birthday: William Lash Miller
Eminent Canadian physical chemist and leading proponent of Gibbs' thermodynamics in North America

200th Birthday: Charles Frédéric Gerhardt
Organist chemist developed the concept of homologous series

100th Anniversary: Death of Sir William Ramsay
Discoverer of noble gases and Chemistry Nobel Laureate