In 1965, Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann explained the stereospecificity of pericyclic reactions

50th Anniversary: Woodward-Hoffmann Rules

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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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100th Anniversary: Paul Ehrlich’s Death
Nobel Laureate, eminent immunologist, and founder of chemotherapy

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100th Birthday: Albert Ghiorso
Nuclear researcher and co-discoverer of 12 elements

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150th Birthday: Emil Knoevenagel
Inventor of the eponymous aldol condensation

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