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William Ramsay William Ramsay
RAMSAY, WILLIAM (b. Glasgow, Scotland, 2 October 1852; d. Hazlemere [near High Wycombe], Buckinghamshire, England, 23 July 1916) physical chemistry. Ramsay is best known for his discovery and isolation of the family of inert gases of the atmosphere. For this experimental work, along with the... Read more
Sir William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay 1852-1916, Scottish chemist. He was professor of chemistry at University College, Bristol (1880-87), and at University College, London (1887-1912). In his early experiments he showed that the alkaloids are related to pyridine, which he synthesized (1876) from acetylene and... Read more
Hans Fischer Hans Fischer
Hans Fischer The German organic chemist Hans Fischer (1881-1945) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1930 for his researches into the constitution of hemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of hemin. Hans Fischer, the son of Dr. Eugen Fischer, a manufacturer of... Read more
Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye
Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye , 1884-1966, American physicist, b. the Netherlands. He was professor at the universities of Zürich, Utrecht, Göttingen, Leipzig, and Berlin. In 1940 he came to the United States and served as professor of chemistry at Cornell Univ. (1940-52). For his work on the... Read more
Theodor Svedberg Theodor Svedberg
Theodor Svedberg , 1884-1971, Swedish chemist. He was professor of physical chemistry from 1912 to 1949 at the Univ. of Uppsala. For his fundamental research on colloid chemistry he received the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Svedberg studied especially the giant protein molecules, evolving for this... Read more
Robert William Holley Robert William Holley
HOLLEY, ROBERT WILLIAM(b. Urbana, Illinois, 28 January 1922; d. Los Gatos, California, 11 February 1993),organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology.Holley was the first to provide the full sequence of an RNA molecule, alanine transfer RNA, and therefore, indirectly, of a gene.... Read more
Alexander R. Todd Alexander R. Todd
Alexander Todd Chemist Alexander Todd researched the chemistry of nucleotides and was influential in synthesizing vitamins for commercial applications. For his work on nucleotides, he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Alexander Todd was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in chemistry... Read more
Svante August Arrhenius Svante August Arrhenius
Svante August Arrhenius , 1859-1927, Swedish chemist. He was a professor of physics in Stockholm in 1895 and became director of the Nobel Institute for Physical Chemistry, Stockholm, in 1905. For originating (1884, 1887) the theory of electrolytic dissociation, or ionization, he received the 1903... Read more
Adolf Windaus Adolf Windaus
Adolf Windaus , 1876-1959, German chemist. He was professor of chemistry and director of the chemistry laboratories at the Univ. of Göttingen (1915-44). For his research on sterols, especially in relation to vitamins, he received the 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He later discovered and... Read more
Richard Zsigmondy Richard Zsigmondy
ZSIGMONDY, RICHARD ADOLF(b. Vienna Austria, 1 April 1865;d. Göttingen, Germany, 24 September 1929)colloidal chemistry.Zsigmondy was a figure of paramount importance on colloid chemistry during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1925, for invention of the... Read more

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