1879 |
Johannes N. Brönsted, who offered the acid-base theory (Brönsted-Lowry), was a researcher in kinetics, properties of ions,
catalysis and nitramide, was born.
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1902 |
Fritz Strassman, who with Otto Hahn and Lise Mietner, discovered neutroninduced nuclear fission in uranium (1938) and codeveloped
the rubidium-strontium technique of radio-dating geological samples, was born.
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1828 |
Frederich Wöhler in a letter to Jöns J. Berzelius, announced the synthesis of urea from ammonium cyanate, asking whether this
is a true synthesis of organic from inorganic material.
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