March in Chemistry
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- Edward Goodrich Acheson born 1856: development of electric furnace for production of silicon carbide ("Carborundum"); founder of Carborundum Corporation; graphite lubricants
- Walter Kohn born 1923: density functional theory in atomic and molecular structure calculations; Nobel Prize, 1998.
- Stanley Thompson born 1912: co-discoverer of berkelium (Bk, element 97), californium (Cf, 98), einsteinium (Es, 99), fermium (Fm, 100), and mendelevium (Md, 101).
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- Georgius Agricola (also known as Georg Bauer) born 1494: "Father of Mineralogy"; described mining and metallurgy in De Re Metallica (1556, Read English translation).
- William Brownrigg born 1711: pneumatic trough for collection of gases; description of platinum (Pt, element 78).
- Adolf Frederick Johann Butenandt born 1903: research on sex hormones including estrone, androsterone, and progesterone; Nobel Prize, 1939, declined on instructions of Nazi government (received award in 1949).
- Peter Debye born 1884: dipole moment determinations (unit named after him); powder method of X-ray diffraction (Debye-Scherrer method; view reminiscences by Scherrer); electrolyte solutions (Debye-Hückel theory); intermolecular forces; Nobel Prize, 1936. (Years after his death, questions were raised over Debye's actions under Nazi rule, subsequent investigations suggest a more complex situation than initially appeared.)
- Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef, 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of oil into the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska.
- William Frear born 1860: food and agricultural chemistry: beet sugar, cereals, culture of tobacco, soils, fertilizers.
- John Cowdery Kendrew born 1917: used X-ray diffraction to determine structure of myoglobin. (See 1958 Nature paper.) Nobel Prize, 1962
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- Christian Anfinsen born 1916: relationship of protein structure (especially ribonuclease) to biological function; Nobel Prize, 1972.
- Ferdinand Brickwedde born 1903: codiscoverer of deuterium.
- Alexander Crum Brown born 1838: modern structural formulae; rules for substitution in benzene derivatives; organosulfur compounds; theory of isomerism.
- James Bryant Conant born 1893: research on free radicals, hemoglobin, a/'}E͢}%n5RnkXõ~3B<(nm݆Y_YW[2n68
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