 1753 - Franz K. Achard born: introduced platinum crucible; invented process for extraction of sugar from sugar beets and opened the first beet sugar factory. |
| 1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot born: discovered optical activity; Biot-Savart law in electromagnetism. |
| 1839 - Wilhelm Körner born: isomerism in substituted benzenes. |
| 1876 - American Chemical Society organized in New York City. |
| 1912 - Gertrude Perlmann born: protein biochemistry, particularly phosphoproteins; Garvan Medal, 1965. |
| 1918 - Kai Manne Siegbahn born: electron spectroscopy; son of 1924 Nobel laureate X-ray spectroscopist Karl Siegbahn; Nobel Prize (physics), 1981. |
| 1927 - Karl Alexander Müller born: high-temperature superconducting materials; Nobel Prize (Physics), 1987. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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