 1494 - Georgius Agricola (also known as Georg Bauer) born: "Father of Mineralogy"; described mining and metallurgy in De Re Metallica. |
| 1711 - William Brownrigg born: pneumatic trough for collection of gases; description of platinum. |
| 1860 - William Frear born: food and agricultural chemistry: beet sugar, cereals, culture of tobacco, soils, fertilizers. |
| 1884 - Peter Debye born: dipole moment determinations; powder method of X-ray diffraction (Debye-Scherrer method); electrolyte solutions (Debye-Hückel theory); Nobel Prize, 1936 |
| 1903 - Adolf F. J. Butenandt born: research on sex hormones including estrone, androsterone, and progesterone; Nobel Prize, 1939, declined on instructions of Nazi government (received award in 1949). |
| 1917 - John Cowdery Kendrew born: used X-ray diffraction to determine structure of myoglobin; Nobel Prize, 1962 |
sources: http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html, http://todayinsci.com
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