Associate Professor Uta Wille, University of Melbourne, Australia, followed a unique career path from atmospheric to organic chemistry, from Germany to Australia

Women in Chemistry — Interview with Uta Wille

50th Anniversary: Nobel Prize for Feodor Lynen
Feodor Lynen received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964; answer to Guess the Chemist (34)

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