December 5th
1901 Werner Heisenberg, a researcher in quantum mechanics and developer of the Heisenberg Principle, was born. In 1932 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics.
1974 The first paper on ion chromatography was submitted on to "Analytical Chemistry" by H. Small, T. S. Stevens, and W. C. Bauman. It was entitled "Novel Ion Exchange Chromatographic Method Using Conductimetric Detection".