French chemist discovered the element lutetium

150th Birthday: Georges Urbain

Emil Fischer’s Unsolved Case: Cleared Up after 120 Years – Part 2
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75th Anniversary: Death of Victor Goldschmidt
Mineralogist considered one of the founders of modern geochemistry

The Limits of Growth
50 to 60 years ago, the global environmental movement began with Silent Spring, the Club of Rome, the first Earth Day

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Stories and Stories-Behind-the Stories of the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules
Learn fascinating things about Woodward, Hoffmann, Corey, and many others by taking the quiz

February 7–8, 1922: An Important Night for Physicists And Chemists
What happened during this night in 1922?

150th Birthday: Lafayette B. Mendel
American biochemist known for the co-discovery of vitamin A

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