 1783 - Friedrich Wilhelm Sertürner born: discovered morphine (extracted it from opium). |
| 1897 - Cyril N. Hinshelwood born: chemical kinetics; Nobel Prize, 1956. |
| 1906 - Ernst Boris Chain: extraction and purification of penicillin; Nobel Prize (medicine), 1945. |
| 1910 - Paul J. Flory born: physical chemistry of macromolecules; Nobel Prize, 1974. |
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