Polish-Swiss chemist and Nobel Laureate developed a method for vitamin C synthesis and isolated cortisone
125th Birthday: Tadeusz Reichstein
Prussian Blue: Discovery and Betrayal – Part 3
Who leaked the secret recipe for Prussian blue?
Guess the Chemist (127)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?
The First Female Chemist at BASF
Lili Wachenheim (1893 – 1989) was the first female chemist to do research in a BASF laboratory
Tracing Local Glass Recycling in First-Millennium Spain
Rare alkali elements as markers of secondary glass processing and recycling
125th Birthday: Georg Wittig
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry well-known for the Wittig reaction
Guess the Chemist (126)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?
Prussian Blue: Discovery and Betrayal – Part 2
How Johann Konrad Dippel almost ruined the Prussian blue business
August Beer (1825 – 1863)
German researcher well-known for his contributions to the Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law
Prussian Blue: Discovery and Betrayal – Part 1
Around 1700, Berlin was a colorful center of innovation – a scene that led to the discovery of the century: Prussian blue