One of India's most famous female chemists
Asima Chatterjee – Pioneer of Her Time
100th Anniversary: Death of Philippe Barbier
French organic chemist known as a pioneer of organometallic chemistry
125th Birthday: Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel Laureate developed a method for vitamin C synthesis and isolated cortisone
125th Birthday: Georg Wittig
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry well-known for the Wittig reaction
August Beer (1825 – 1863)
German researcher well-known for his contributions to the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law
150th Birthday: Georges Urbain
French chemist discovered the element lutetium
75th Anniversary: Death of Victor Goldschmidt
Mineralogist considered one of the founders of modern geochemistry
150th Birthday: Lafayette B. Mendel
American biochemist known for the co-discovery of vitamin A
Giacomo Ciamician (1857 – 1922)
Italian chemist and pioneer of photochemistry died 100 years ago
Isabella Karle (1921 – 2017)
U.S. chemist known for her work on X-ray crystallography and the Manhattan Project