 1731 - Henry Cavendish born: discovered hydrogen (H, element 1); recognized water was not an element; investigated nitrogen-containing compounds and atmospheric nitrogen. The Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge has had a long and distinguished history in the physical sciences. |
| 1872 - Arthur Lapworth born: organic reaction mechanisms; organic ions. |
| 1930 - Ernest O. Lawrence invented cyclotron. |
| 2001 - Announcement of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for chirally catalysed reactions to William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori (hydrogenations), and K. Barry Sharpless (oxidations). |
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