 1610 - Ferdinand II de' Medici born: invented a sealed thermometer; patron of scientists, including Galileo. |
| 1791 - Joseph Priestley's home (including his laboratory) in Birmingham, England, was destroyed by a rioting mob. Priestley eventually moved to the US. |
| 1800 - Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas born: organic chemist (isolated anthracene from coal tar); vapor density method (Dumas method) for determination of atomic and molecular weights; theories of organic radicals and of chemical types. |
| 1874 - Andre Louis Debierne born: radiochemistry, discovered actinium (Ac, element 89). |
| 1888 - Mary Lura Sherrill born: organic synthesis of antimalarial compounds; Garvan Medal, 1947. |
| 1914 - Robert Goddard obtains a patent for a liquid fuel rocket. |
| 1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson born: inorganic chemistry (complex hydrides, homogeneous catalysis); Nobel Prize, 1973. |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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