 1777 - Bernard Courtois born (died 27 Sep 1838): discovered iodine (I, element 53) from seaweed. |
| 1795 - Friedlieb Runge born: discovered carbolic acid (phenol) and aniline in coal tar; dry distillation. |
| 1795 - Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge born (died 25 Mar 1867): German chemist considered to be the originator of the widely used analytic technique of paper chromatography. |
| 1834 - Dmitrii Mendeleev born: (some sources say Feb. 7): periodic law and periodic table. |
| 1848 - Francis Robert Japp born: benzil, benzoin, and phenanthraquinone. |
| 1866 - Moses Gomberg born: work on triphenylmethyl (first stable organic free radical); tautomerism. |
| 1975 - Sir Robert Robinson died (born 13 Sep 1886): British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947 for his research on a wide range of organic compounds, notably alkaloids. |
| 1994 - Robert Holton announces total synthesis of taxol, an important cancer drug. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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