Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel Laureate developed a method for vitamin C synthesis and isolated cortisone

125th Birthday: Tadeusz Reichstein

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

150th Anniversary: Death of Adolph Strecker
Chemist well-known for the Strecker amino acid synthesis

50th Anniversary: Death of Arne Tiselius
Chemistry Nobel Laureate honored for his research on electrophoresis