 1706 - Émilie du Châtelet born: chemical nature of fire (Dissertation sur la nature et la propagation du feu); better known for her mathematics and for her relationship with Voltaire. |
| 1778 - Humphry Davy born: isolated barium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, and strontium; co-discovered boron; recognized as elementary and named chlorine; invented Davy mine safety lamp. |
| 1818 - J. Lawrence Smith born: toxicology and chemistry of minerals. |
| 1832 - Michael Faraday enunciated first law of electrolysis, "Chemical power, like magnetic force, is in direct proportion to the absolute quantity of electricity which passes,". |
| 1908 - Willard F. Libby born: developed carbon dating; Nobel Prize, 1960. |
| 1920 - Allied Chemical and Dye Corp. (later part of Allied Signal, which merged with Honeywell) incorporated. |
| 1928 - Fission of uranium (U, element 92) by neutrons detected by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Berlin; the interpretation of the event as fission would await a paper by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. |
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