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physical chemistry |
| the study of the theoretical basis of chemical behavior, relying on mathematics & physics |
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| April 8 in chemistry |
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 1818 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann born: coal tar; organic nitrogen chemistry, particularly dyes; founding president of the German Chemical Society. |
| 1885 - Joseph Kenyon born: organic chemistry, stereochemistry and mechanism of nucleophilic substitution. |
| 1911 - Melvin Calvin born: research in photosynthesis; Nobel Prize, 1961. |
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