 1794 - Joseph Priestley leaves England to move to the United States. A mob hostile to his politically and religiously liberal views had destroyed his home and made him unwelcome in Birmingham. |
| 1795 - New law establishes metric system and nomenclature in France. |
| 1825 - Heinrich Hlasiwetz born: protein analysis. |
| 1894 - Louis P. Hammett born: physical organic chemistry; structure-activity relationships; Hammett equation for linear free-energy relationships |
| 1899 - Louis Frederick Fieser born: organic chemistry (synthesis and aromatic compounds); invented napalm; coauthor of Reagents for Organic Synthesis |
| 1914 - Walter H. Stockmayer born: statistical mechanics and dynamics of polymers. |
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