Seventeenth century alchemist and apothecary considered one of the earliest chemical engineers
350th Anniversary: Death of Johann Rudolph Glauber
100th Anniversary: Death of Carl Alexander von Martius
German chemist developed important, industrially used dyes
100th Anniversary: Death of Wilhelm Pfeffer
German chemist, pharmacists, and botanist invented the "Pfeffer cell" to measure osmotic pressure
100th Anniversary: Death of Julia Lermontova
First Russian female doctor in chemistry
100th Anniversary: Death of Mitsuru Kuhara
First President of the Tokyo Chemical Society, a predecessor of the Chemical Society of Japan
150th Anniversary: Death of Otto Linné Erdmann
German chemist best known for his work on nickel, dye-stuffs, and the determination of atomic weights
150th Anniversary: Death of Thomas Graham
British chemist considered one of the founders of colloid chemistry
25th Anniversary: Death of Richard Laurence Millington Synge
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1952, honored for the invention of partition chromatography
175th Anniversary: Death of John Dalton
English chemist pioneered modern atomic theory
100th Anniversary: Death of Lord Rayleigh
Nobel Laureate co-discovered argon and explained the phenomenon of Rayleigh scattering