March 19th
1883 Walter N. Haworth, who synthesized ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), was born. He was researcher on sugars and dextran as blood plasma substitute; Nobel Prize (1937) winner for vitamin synthesis, with Paul Karrer.
1900 Frédéric J. Joliot (Joliot-Curie), Nobel Prize winner in 1935 with wife Irène Joliot-Curie, for production of artificial radioisotopes, was born. He proved experimentally that neutron emission occurs in nuclear fission with H. Halban and L. W. Kowarski.