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100th Birthday: Mildred Cohn
A biochemist who overcame religious and sexual discrimination
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100th Anniversary: Clemmensen Reduction
The Clemmensen reduction of ketones and aldehydes is the simplest direct method for converting the carbonyl group into a methylene group
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250th Birthday: Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin discovered chromium and beryllium; answer to Guess the Chemist (17)
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Faster-than-Light Travel in 50 Years
50 years until Zefram Cochrane’s test flight of The Phoenix, Earth’s first warp ship; answer to Guess the Chemist 16
Like a Detective Story: The Discovery of C60
The discovery of fullerenes was neither quick nor easy, and was rich in surprising twists
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