 1862 - Agnes Pockels born: liquid surfaces: surface tension and films; invention of the slide trough and surface film balance. |
| 1873 - Dennis Searle and E. M. Skillings found borax and other soluble salts at San Bernardino, CA. |
| 1878 - Julius Nieuwland born: synthetic rubber pioneer; acetylene chemistry. |
| 1889 - Evan J. Crane born: editor of Chemical Abstracts, 1915-58. |
| 1917 - Herbert A. Hauptman born: mathematical methods for crystal structures; Nobel Prize, 1985. |
| 1961 - Lawrencium (Lr, element 103) was produced by Torbjorn Sikkeland, Albert Ghiorso, and Almon Larsh and Robert Latimer, at University of California, Berkeley. |
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