The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded to Benjamin List and David McMillan for their innovation in molecular construction, known as “asymmetric organocatalysis”. German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David MacMillan of Princeton...

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“International Day of Women and Girls in Science” is celebrated on 11 February. Here are women scientists who have won the Chemistry Nobel Prize. Marie Skłodowska Curie: The discovery of the elements radium and polonium Irène Joliot Curie: Synthesis of...

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Robert Boyle was born on January 25, 1627. He was a scientific investigator in different areas, however, his major interest was chemistry. During his studies, he found that there is an inverse relationship between pressure (P) and volume (V) of...

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On January 15, 1784, Henry Cavendish reported that water was composed of hydrogen and oxygen. He had first discovered hydrogen gas and named it inflammable air. At the time of the experiment, Cavendish did not know the existence of oxygen....

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197 years ago, on 27 December, Loui Pasteur was born. He is well known for his discoveries of the microbial fermentation and pasteurization. But he also made important contributions to chemistry. Through his studies on tartaric acid, he found that...

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