 1841 - Alexandre Zaitsev born: rules concerning elimination of hydrogen halides from alkyl haloanhydrides and of water from alcohols; first synthesis of secondary alcohols. |
| 1842 - Albert Ladenburg born: synthesis of pyridine, piperidine, and other compounds . |
| 1862 - William Henry Bragg born: X-ray crystallography (Bragg's law); Nobel Prize (Physics), 1915 with son William Lawrence. |
| 1872 - Fritz Ullmann born: Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. |
| 1909 - Fritz Haber demonstrated nitrogen fixation process (Haber process for synthetic ammonia) to Badische Aniline und Soda-Fabrik (BASF). |
| 1919 - Elkan R. Blout born: protein conformation. |
| 1933 - Jean'ne Marie Shreeve born: synthetic fluorine chemistry, particularly fluorinated compounds of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus; Garvan Medal, 1972. |
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