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This week in the history of chemistry #8
Dec 8, 1947 Thomas Robert Cech was born. He discovered the role of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and won the Nobel Prize in 1989.
Dec 8, 1730 Jan Ingenhousz was born. He studied photosynthesis, and provided a description of the production of oxygen by plants (part of his Experiments upon Vegetables in 1779).
Dec 9, 1742 Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born. He discovered chlorine, isolated oxygen ("fire air"), and phosphorus from bone ash. He studied the action of light on silver salts and synthesized organic acids.
Dec 10, 1967 First commercial experiment in nuclear mining conducted under New Mexico desert ("Project Gasbuggy")
Dec 11 1844 Horace Wells, a dentist, first used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
Dec 11 1947 Vitamin B12 was first isolated by Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories.
Dec 11 1925 Paul Greengard was born. He discovered the biochemical action of dopamine and other neurotransmitters. Won the Nobel Prize (Medicine) in 2000.
Dec 12 1775 William Henry was born. He discovered that the solubility of a gas in a liquid is proportional to the gas pressure (Henry's law).
Dec 12 1960 First pure compound of californium (Cf, element 98) was announced at a meeting of American Nuclear Society.
Dec 13, 1867 Olaf Kristian Birkeland was born. he developed the first industrial fixing of nitrogen.
Dec 14 1940 Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, Joseph Kennedy, and Arthur Wahl bombarded uranium oxide with 16-MeV deuterons to produce plutonium (Pu, element 94).
Dec 14 1900 Max Planck introduced the notion of light as quantized energy packets to the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society).
Dec 15 1852 Antoine-Henri Becqurel was born. He discovered radioactivity (Becquerel rays) from uranium salts. Won the Nobel Prize (physics) in 1903.
Dec 8, 1947 Thomas Robert Cech was born. He discovered the role of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and won the Nobel Prize in 1989.
Dec 8, 1730 Jan Ingenhousz was born. He studied photosynthesis, and provided a description of the production of oxygen by plants (part of his Experiments upon Vegetables in 1779).
Dec 9, 1742 Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born. He discovered chlorine, isolated oxygen ("fire air"), and phosphorus from bone ash. He studied the action of light on silver salts and synthesized organic acids.
Dec 10, 1967 First commercial experiment in nuclear mining conducted under New Mexico desert ("Project Gasbuggy")
Dec 11 1844 Horace Wells, a dentist, first used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
Dec 11 1947 Vitamin B12 was first isolated by Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories.
Dec 11 1925 Paul Greengard was born. He discovered the biochemical action of dopamine and other neurotransmitters. Won the Nobel Prize (Medicine) in 2000.
Dec 12 1775 William Henry was born. He discovered that the solubility of a gas in a liquid is proportional to the gas pressure (Henry's law).
Dec 12 1960 First pure compound of californium (Cf, element 98) was announced at a meeting of American Nuclear Society.
Dec 13, 1867 Olaf Kristian Birkeland was born. he developed the first industrial fixing of nitrogen.
Dec 14 1940 Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, Joseph Kennedy, and Arthur Wahl bombarded uranium oxide with 16-MeV deuterons to produce plutonium (Pu, element 94).
Dec 14 1900 Max Planck introduced the notion of light as quantized energy packets to the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society).
Dec 15 1852 Antoine-Henri Becqurel was born. He discovered radioactivity (Becquerel rays) from uranium salts. Won the Nobel Prize (physics) in 1903.
