1769 - Friedrich C. Accum born: industrial chemist; helped found the coal gas industry; wrote on food adulteration. |
1855 - Julius Konrad Bredt born: first described correct strcture of camphor; Bredt's rule for bicyclic compounds. |
1871 - Aleksei E. Chichibabin born: nucleophilic alkylation; amination of pyridines (Chichibabin reaction); synthesis of substituted pyridines (Chichibabin-Baeyer reaction). |
1883 - Donald D. Van Slyke born: clinical chemistry. |
1898 - Herrick L. Johnston born: low-temperature research. |
1927 - Madeleine M. JoulliƩ born: organic synthesis (tilorone, furanomycin, cyclopeptide alkaloids and cyclodepsipeptides); Garvan Medal, 1978. |
1927 - John Robert Vane born: identification of prostacyclin (epoprostenol), a natural blood-clotting inhibitor; aspirin's pain relief mechanism; Nobel Prize (medicine), 1982. |
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