 1850 - Henry-Louis Le Chatelier born: effects of pressure and temperature on chemical equilibrium (Le Chatelier's principle); chemistry of silicates; mass action in explosives |
| 1872 - Mary Engle Pennington born: her career combined bacteriological chemistry with refrigeration engineering to make her an authority on food preservation. |
| 1883 - Otto H. Warburg born: respiration and cancer; Nobel prize (Medicine), 1931 |
| 1912 - Saul Winstein born: physical organic chemistry; mechanisms of organic reactions. |
| 1917 - Rodney R. Porter born: biochemist determined four-chain structure of antibodies; Nobel prize (medicine), 1972. |
| 1918 - Jens C. Skou born: ion-transporting enzyme; Nobel prize, 1997. |
| 2001 - Announcement of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Leland H. Hartwell, R. Timothy (Tim) Hunt, and Paul M. Nurse for discoveries of "key regulators of the cell cycle". |
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