German researcher well-known for his contributions to the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law
August Beer (1825 – 1863)
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
100th Birthday: Robert G. Parr
American theoretical chemist co-authored one of the most highly cited chemistry papers of all time
125th Birthday: Gerty Cori
Nobel Laureate known for the co-discovery of the Cori cycle and the Cori ester