Chemists in History (Part 3)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 201 - 274 of 274

• 1914-05-19 Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
• 1914-10-28 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist (Nobel 1952)
• 1915-11-30 Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
• 1916-03-26 Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
• 1916-06-04 Robert Furchgott, Charleston South Carolina, American Chemist and Nobel Laureate
• 1917-04-10 Robert B. Woodward, American organic chemist (Nobel 1965), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1979)
• 1917-06-01 William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 2012)
• 1917-09-07 John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 2013)
• 1918-06-08 John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
• 1918-07-31 Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (1997), born in Provo, Utah (d. 2018)
• 1918-09-08 Derek Barton, British chemist (Nobel 1969)
• 1918-10-04 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1918-11-10 Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973), born in Munich, Germany (d. 2007)
• 1919-06-18 Jerome Karle, New York, chemist (Nobel 1985) and Manhattan Project member, (d. 2013)
• 1919-07-31 Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (Survival in Auschwitz), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1987)
• 1919-08-07 John Hogan, Lowes, Kentucky, chemist (discovered methods of producing polypropylene), (d. 2012)
• 1919-12-09 William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate

• 1920-09-29 Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1920-12-06 George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
• 1921-07-14 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
• 1921-08-01 Vic Marshall, chemist (d. 1996)
• 1922-01-09 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), born in Raipur, Punjab, British India (d. 2011)
• 1923-03-09 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), born in Vienna (d. 2016)

• 1923-12-08 Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist
• 1925-01-08 James Saunders, English chemist/playwright (Ark)
• 1925-03-16 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)
• 1925-10-31 John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England (d. 2004)
• 1926-07-16 Irwin Rose, American biologist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
• 1927-05-09 Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967)
• 1927-06-28 Frank Rowland, Newport Beach, California, Nobel laureate in chemistry, (d. 2012)

• 1928-07-12 Elias James Corey, American organic chemist (Nobel 1990), born in Methuen, Massachusetts
• 1929-01-23 John Polanyi, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986), born in Berlin, Germany
• 1930-02-27 Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
• 1930-04-09 F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
• 1931-08-15 Richard F. Heck, American chemist who discovered the Heck Reaction (Nobel Prize 2010), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
• 1932-01-06 Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
• 1932-04-26 Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
• 1932-06-18 Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933-08-14 Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate
• 1933-08-23 Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer
• 1933-08-23 Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933-12-03 Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1935-02-16 Robin Clark, chemist (FRS)
• 1936-01-22 Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1936-08-20 Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936-10-10 Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.
• 1936-11-19 Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937-07-18 Roald Hoffmann, Polish-American chemist (Nobel 1981), born in Złoczów, Poland
• 1938-08-11 Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist
• 1938-09-03 Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938-10-04 Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1939-06-28 Klaus Schmiegel, German-American chemist (invented Prozac), born in Chemnitz, Germany
• 1939-10-07 Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1996), born in Wisbech (d. 2016)
• 1941-01-07 John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941-04-28 K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1942-02-27 Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942-03-27 Sir John E. Sulston, British molecular biologist, co-recipient of 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (roundworm genome sequencing), born in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire (d. 2018)
• 1942-04-18 Dick K J Tommel, chemist/(D66) Dutch Asst Sec of State (1994- )
• 1943-03-19 Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and 1995 Nobel laureate (Antarctic ozone hole), born in Mexico City, Mexico

• 1943-09-30 Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944-12-28 Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1945-01-04 Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1946-02-26 Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist, Nobel laureate (1999), born in Damanhur, Egypt (d. 2016)
• 1947-04-24 Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist (Nobel 2006), born in St. Louis, Missouri
• 1947-12-08 Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1948-07-18 Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1952-02-01 Roger Y. Tsien, Chemist (Nobel Prize 2008), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)

• 1958-09-25 Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
• 1982-09-16 Michael McCall, Irish chemist

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 201 - 220 of 220

• 2005-10-28 Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
• 2005-11-16 Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 2007-02-20 F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
• 2007-03-27 Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
• 2008-04-29 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
• 2009-05-19 Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2010-12-10 John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
• 2011-10-23 Herbert A. Hauptman, American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94
• 2012-02-19 John Hogan, American research chemist, dies at 92
• 2012-03-10 Frank Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry, dies from Parkinson's disease at 84
• 2012-06-13 William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95
• 2013-06-06 Jerome Karle, American chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 94
• 2013-12-08 John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 96

• 2015-06-02 Irwin Rose, American biologist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004), dies at 88
• 2015-10-09 Richard F. Heck, American chemist who discovered the Heck Reaction (Nobel Prize 2010), dies at 84
• 2016-04-19 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), dies at 93
• 2016-05-07 Harold Kroto, English chemist, (Nobel Prize laureate 1996), dies at 76
• 2016-08-02 Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist, (Nobel Prize 1999), dies at 70
• 2016-08-24 Roger Y. Tsien, American chemist (Nobel Prize 2008), dies at 64

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