 1788 - Pierre J. Pelletier born: discovered quinine, strychnine, and other alkaloids; isolated toluene from pipe resin. |
| 1868 - Robert A. Millikan born: measurement of charge-to-mass ratio of the electron (oil drop experiment); Nobel Prize (physics). |
| 1882 - James William McBain born: surface and colloid chemistry. |
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