 1791 - John Mercer born: treated cotton with caustic soda (mercerized cotton); discovered some calico dyes. |
| 1822 - Oliver Wolcott Gibbs born: early American inorganic and analytical chemist (Harvard); founding member of US National Academy of Sciences. |
| 1895 - Carl Henrik Dam born: vitamin K as a dietary factor in blood clotting; Nobel Prize (medicine), 1943. |
| 1902 - Dorothy V. Nightingale born: synthetic organic chemistry, particularly reactions of alkylbenzenes in the presence of aluminum chloride; Garvan Medal, 1959. |
| 1921 - Norman B. Hannay born: materials for solid state electronics. |
| 1947 - Edwin Land demonstrates Polaroid camera to optical society meeting. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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