Italian Nobel Laureate well-known for his work on Ziegler–Natta catalysts for polymer synthesis

120th Birthday: Giulio Natta

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

Asima Chatterjee – Pioneer of Her Time
One of India's most famous female chemists

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