Feodor Lynen received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964; answer to Guess the Chemist (34)
50th Anniversary: Nobel Prize for Feodor Lynen
75th Birthday: Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn received the Nobel chemistry prize in 1987; answer to Guess the Chemist (33)
20th Anniversary: Linus Pauling's Death
Linus Carl Pauling is the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes; answer to Guess the Chemist (32)
175th Birthday: James Mason Crafts
James Mason Crafts discovered together with Charles Friedel the Friedel–Crafts reactions, answer to Guess the Chemist (27)
Leo Hendrik Baekeland: Inventor of Bakelite
Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, a polymeric plastic made from phenol and formaldehyde, answer to Guess the Chemist (26)
100th Anniversary: Bergius Process
The Process for the production of liquid hydrocarbons was developed by F. Bergius in 1913; answer to Guess the Chemist (24)
100th Anniversary of the First PVC Patent
Production method for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) first patented 100 years ago by Friedrich Klatte; answer to Guess the Chemist (20)
250th Birthday: Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin discovered chromium and beryllium; answer to Guess the Chemist (17)
Faster-than-Light Travel in 50 Years
50 years until Zefram Cochrane’s test flight of The Phoenix, Earth’s first warp ship; answer to Guess the Chemist 16
50th Anniversary: Supercritical Fluid Extraction
Kurt Zosel, Germany, first patented supercritical fluid extraction in 1963; answer to Guess the Chemist (15)