 1825 - Richard Erlenmeyer born: conical flask (Erlenmeyer flask); organic synthesis. |
| 1858 - Jane Haldimand Marcet died (birth date unknown in 1769): wrote Conversations on Chemistry (popular chemistry text). |
| 1906 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer born: nucleus shell structure; Nobel Prize (physics), 1963. |
| 1927 - F. Sherwood Rowland born: atmospheric chemistry, particularly of ozone layer; Nobel Prize, 1995. |
| 1931 - Jenny Pickworth Glusker born: crystallography; structure-activity relationships for carcinogens and mutagens. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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