1867 |
Charles L. Parsons, researcher on beryllium (Be, 4); obtained federal charter for ACS; helped establish Petroleum research
Fund, was born.
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1881 |
Hermann Staudinger, researcher on the chemistry of macromolecular substances; Nobel Prize (1953) for his discoveries in the
field of macromolecular chemistry, was born.
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1895 |
William Crookes identified new gas (isolated from air by William Ramsay) as helium that had been discovered in the Sun 27 years earlier by Norman Lockyer.
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1962 |
Neil Bartlett made the first noble gas compound, XePtF6.
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