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This Week in Chemistry: Feb 25 - March 2
February 25, 2008 at 01:36 AM
Analtech, Inc. is proud to provide this public service feature - This Week in Chemistry - a recap of major breakthroughs in chemistry as well as the commemoration of key individuals birthdates.
Analtech thanks Dr. Leopold May of The Catholic University of America forproviding this information - you can visit his web site by clicking here.
Feb. 25
b. 1869 Phoebus A. T. Levene, researcher on the biochemistry of proteins,
hexosamines & stereochemistry.
b. 1880 Arthur B. Lamb, editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1917-1949.
b. 1896 Ida E. Noddack discovered rhenium (Rh, 75), 1925, with her husband, Walter K. F. Noddack & O. Berg.
b. 1898 William Thomas Astbury, x-ray diffraction patterns to study the
structures of nucleic acids (1937) & wool in both the stretched and unstretched
forms.
Feb. 26
b. 1866 Herbert H. Dow, founder of Dow Chemical Company.
b. 1903 Giulio Natta discovered and elucidated stereospecific polymerization and stereoregular polymers; development of commercially important polymerization processes; Nobel Prize (1963) with Karl Ziegler for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers.
b. 1905 William J. Sparks, innovator & developer in synthetic rubber.
b. 1946 Ahmed H. Zewail, received Nobel Prize (1999) for pioneering investigation of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
Feb. 27
b. 1869 Alice Hamilton researched toxic substances in the workplace; First women professor at Harvard Medical School.
Feb. 28
b. 1814 Edmond Frémy prepared anhydrous hydrogen fluoride; researcher on ferrates, ozone, pectins; plumbates, stannates, saponification of fats; synthesized first artificial rubies and sapphires;investigated whether plant materials such as cellulose could be transformed into coal by way of lignite and ulmic acid.
b. 1814 Philip S. Hench, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1950) with Edward Calvin Kendall & Tadeus Reichstein for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
b. 1901 Linus C. Pauling, researcher on structure of molecules, valency, & resonance; Nobel Prize (1954) for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances; Nobel Peace Prize (1962).
Feb. 29
o Dutch scientists produced solid helium (1908).
March 1
b. 1862 Edward Franklin, researcher in chemistry of nitrogen system of compounds.
b. 1910 Archer J. P. Martin, Nobel Prize (1952) with Richard L. M. Synge for their invention of partition chromatography.
o John McLean, first professor of chemistry, Princeton, established first laboratory of chemistry 1771.
o Antoine-Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity of uranite in pitchblende, 1896.
March 2
b. 1848 Philippe A. Barbier synthesized first organomagnesium compound.
b. 1886 H. Jermain Creighton, researcher in electro-organic chemistry; developed industrial process for electroreduction of glucose to sorbitol and mannitol.
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