American chemist co-discovered promethium
50th Anniversary: Death of Charles D. Coryell
100th Birthday: George Porter
Chemistry Nobel Laureate co-developed flash photolysis
50th Anniversary: Death of Margaret D. Foster
First female chemist to work for the U.S. Geological Survey; also recruited to work on the Manhattan Project
150th Birthday: Sir William Jackson Pope
British chemist and crystallographer known for his work on optically active N, S, Se, or Sn compounds
100th Birthday: Peter D. Mitchell
Chemistry Nobel Laureate discovered the primary mechanism of ATP synthesis
90th Anniversary: Death of Joseph Achille Le Bel
French chemist and co-discoverer of the basic concepts of organic stereochemistry
100th Birthday: Rosalind Franklin
British chemist and X-ray crystallographer made important contributions to understanding the structure of DNA
100th Anniversary: Death of Ludwig Gattermann
German chemist known for the Gattermann reaction
125th Birthday: William Giauque
Chemistry Nobel Laureate worked on thermodynamics and cryogenics
125th Anniversary: Death of Lothar Meyer
German chemist and physician developed one of the first periodic tables of chemical elements