Spanish scientist, explorer, and naval officer credited with the first description of platinum
300th Birthday: Antonio de Ulloa
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75th Anniversary: Discovery of Plutonium
Element 94 was first produced and isolated at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in 1940
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100th Birthday: Henry Taube
Nobel Laureate Taube made major contributions to coordination chemistry
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50th Anniversary: Woodward-Hoffmann Rules
In 1965, Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann explained the stereospecificity of pericyclic reactions
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50th Anniversary: Hermann Staudinger’s Death
Nobel Laureate Staudinger was the father of polymer chemistry and discovered the ketenes
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