 1736 - James Watt born: best known as an engineer whose version of the steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution, Watt was also one of the first to recognize that water was a compound substance. |
| 1813 - Henry Bessemer born: metallurgist, inventor of the Bessemer converter and Bessemer process for making steel. |
| 1885 - Harry Fisher born: inventor in synthetic rubber and rubber technology. |
| 1904 - Lucy Weston Pickett born: effects of X-rays on chemical reactions; X-ray crystallography; molecular spectroscopy; Garvan Medal, 1957. |
| 1956 - Susan Solomon born: atmospheric chemistry of ozone, particularly polar. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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