 1799 - Benoit Paul Emile Clapeyron born: relationship between temperature, volume, and heat of vaporization (Clapeyron and Clausius-Clapeyron equations). |
| 1866 - Herbert Henry Dow born: founder of Dow Chemical. |
| 1903 - Giulio Natta born: polymer chemistry including polymer stereochemistry; Nobel Prize, 1963. |
| 1905 - William J. Sparks born: advances in synthetic rubber. |
| 1929 - Marjorie Beckett Caserio born: physical organic chemistry: kinetics and mechanisms; chemical education: Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry. |
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