Dutch chemist and crystallographer known for her discoveries on the use of diffraction in crystallography
Carolina MacGillavry and the Determination of Crystal Structures
Rachel Fuller Brown and the Fight against Fungal Infections
American chemist co-developed the antifungal medication nystatin
Kenichi Fukui and the Importance of Frontier Orbitals
Chemistry Nobel Laureate performed groundbreaking theoretical work on chemical reactivity
350th Birthday: Johann Konrad Dippel
German alchemist co-developed a process for the production of Prussian blue
100th Anniversary: Death of Ernst Otto Beckmann
German pharmacist and chemist well-known for the discovery of the Beckmann rearrangement and the development of the Beckmann differential thermometer
Severo Ochoa and the Synthesis of RNA
Spanish biochemist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for work on polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase)
120th Birthday: Giulio Natta
Italian Nobel Laureate well-known for his work on Ziegler–Natta catalysts for polymer synthesis
300th Birthday: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish researcher discovered nickel and is considered a founder of modern mineralogy
200th Anniversary: Death of Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist well-known for work on modern nomenclature in chemistry, equilibria, dyes, and bleaches
150th Birthday: Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist was a pioneer in food safety and refrigeration