German pharmacist and chemist well-known for the discovery of the Beckmann rearrangement and the development of the Beckmann differential thermometer
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100th Anniversary: Death of Ernst Otto Beckmann
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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)
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120th Birthday: Giulio Natta
Italian Nobel Laureate well-known for his work on Ziegler–Natta catalysts for polymer synthesis
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300th Birthday: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish researcher discovered nickel and is considered a founder of modern mineralogy
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200th Anniversary: Death of Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist well-known for work on modern nomenclature in chemistry, equilibria, dyes, and bleaches
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150th Birthday: Mary Engle Pennington
American bacteriological chemist was a pioneer in food safety and refrigeration
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Asima Chatterjee – Pioneer of Her Time
One of India's most famous female chemists
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100th Anniversary: Death of Philippe Barbier
French organic chemist known as a pioneer of organometallic chemistry
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125th Birthday: Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel Laureate developed a method for vitamin C synthesis and isolated cortisone
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125th Birthday: Georg Wittig
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry well-known for the Wittig reaction