Topics: Chemistry : History

Avogadro, Amedeo View: News Rack - DMoz

Babcock, Stephen Moulton View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
Stephen Moulton Babcock, 1843-1931, was a professor of agricultural chemistry at the University of Wisconsin.
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Boyle, Robert View: News Rack - DMoz

Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
Danish physical chemist (1879-1947) known for a widely applicable acid-base concept identical to that of Thomas Martin Lowry of England.
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Davy, Humphrey View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
English chemist who discovered of the effects of nitrous oxide, which came to be known as laughing gas.
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Kamen, Martin View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
Martin David Kamen (1913-2002) co-discovered carbon-14 in 1940 with Samuel Ruben. In 1944 he was expelled from the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory as a security risk.
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Lavoisier, Antoine View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
Largely because of his introduction of conservation of mass and his rejection of phlogiston, Antoine Lavoisier is considered to be the father of modern chemistry.
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Priestley, Joseph View: News Rack - Sub-Categories - DMoz
English chemist who discovered oxygen, philosopher and dissenting clergyman.
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