 1867 - Wilder Dwight Bancroft born: founder of Journal of Physical Chemistry (now an ACS journal split into A and B sections); phase rule; colloids. |
| 1868 - Georg Bredig born: catalytic action of colloidal platinum; "poisoning" of catalysts; chair of electrochemistry at University of Karlsruhe. |
| 1904 - Otto Frisch born: interpretation of nuclear fission with Lise Meitner. |
| 1940 - Air Products & Chemicals incorporated. |
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