Week 36

Week 36: Sep. 3 – 9 (Archive)

• Fritz Pregl, born 1869, researcher in microchemical analyses; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1923).
• Leopold W. G. Ruzicka, born 1887, researcher on cyclic polymethylenes, terpenes, and synthesis of sex hormones; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1939).
• Ryoji Noyori, born 1938, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2001).

• Stanford Moore, born 1913, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1972).

• Frederick G. Donnan, born 1870, researcher in theory of membrane equilibria (Donnan Equilibrium); research in chemical kinetics.
• Jacobus H. van't Hoff completes famous 11-page treatise on the tetrahedral carbon atom in 1874, marking the birth of stereochemistry.
• Coca Cola Company incorporated in 1892.

• John Dalton, born 1766, proposed atomic theory; discovered law of multiple proportions, "Dalton's law of partial pressures" (1801); discovered pressures of saturated vapors of all liquids have same value at boiling point.
• John J. R. Macleod, born 1876, codiscovered insulin; Nobel Prize in Medicine (1923).
• Luis J. Leloir, born 1906, isolated glucose 1,6-diphodphate and uridine diphosphate glucose; cosynthesized trehalose (1953) and sucrose (1955); isolated uridine diphosphate acetylglucosamine and guanosine diphosphate mannose; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1970).

• Alexandre Butlerov, born 1828, researcher on structural theory of organic chemistry; first to use term chemical structure; synthesized polymer of formaldehyde.
• F. August KekulÉ, born 1829, conceived ring structure of benzene (1865), described tetravalence of carbon and structural theory of organic chemistry (1858); synthesized acetylene (1864).
• Viktor Meyer, born 1848, discovered thiophene, oximes, and vapor density method.
• John W. Cornforth, born 1917, researcher on stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975).

• Derek H. R. Barton, born 1918, conducted research in conformational analysis and free radical reactions; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1969).
• First "Star Trek" telecast in 1966.

• Aleksandr E. Arbuzov, born 1877, studied organophosphorous compounds and rearrangement of phosphite esters (Michael-Arbuzov reaction).
• Westinghouse laboratories announced discovery of konel, a cobalt-nickel alloy in 1929.
• Albert Ghiorso and Glenn T. Seaborg announced discovery of element 106 at University of California, Berkeley, in 1974.