 1828 - Joseph Wilson Swan born: carbon process for printing photographs; carbon-filament light bulb. |
| 1832 - Walter Weldon born: industrial chemistry. |
| 1835 - Adolf von Baeyer born: organic dyes (indigo and triphenylmethyl dyes), introduced concept of ring strain (still a useful concept); Nobel Prize, 1905. |
| 1841 - Josef Habermann born: protein analysis. |
| 1923 - Richard B. Bernstein born: reaction dynamics using molecular beams. |
| 1925 - John A. Pople born: computational quantum chemistry; Nobel Prize, 1998. |
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