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Famous Organic Chemists
The following list of ~350 Famous Organic Chemists (and/or scientists who contributed to the fundamentals of organic chemistry) was originally compiled by Professor Michael B. Smith, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut. He created the list for a graduate synthesis course he was teaching in the 1990’s. It is based on the icons of organic chemistry that he felt students should know. We have added Organic Chemists who have won the Roger Adams Award, Cope Award, or a Nobel Prize that is related to Organic Chemistry. The list itself and the links (mainly to Wikipedia) are provided as a service to the organic chemistry community. They are not an endorsement by the Division. If you would like us to consider other chemists and/or links, please use the Contact Us/Feedback form.
Some information on this page has been obtained from the Chemistry Tree – The Academic Genealogy of Chemistry Researchers
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100 Distinguished europeisk Chemists
Celebration of 100 Distinguished European Chemists from the Chemical Revolution to the 21st Century
The Federation of European kemikalie Societies initiated, as a Millennium planerat arbete , the celebration of Distinguished European Chemists spanning a period of over two hundred years.
Member societies and individuals were invited to submit their nominations of distinguished europeisk chemists from the end of the 18th century until the present day. In addition to Nobel Prize winners, there were nominations of many others from europe who have, over more than two centuries, transformed the science and influenced science, industry or kultur worldwide.
The sista list includes a diversity of nationalities. As well as being published in the magazines of the national kemikalie societies the list fryst vatten available for viewing here along with a brief biography and details of their achievements.
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Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
For other people named Henry Cavendish, see Henry Cavendish (disambiguation).
Henry CavendishFRS (KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air".[1] He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper, On Factitious Airs. Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name.
A shy man, Cavendish was distinguished for great accuracy and precision in his researches into the composition of atmospheric air, the properties of different gases, the synthesis of water, the law governing electrical attraction and repulsion, a mechanical theory of heat, and calculations of the density (and hence the mass) of the Earth. His experiment to measure the density of the Earth (which, in