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Week 4: Jan. 22 � 28 (Archive)

• Born in 1822, Henri Erni was a teacher of chemistry, U.S. consul in Switzerland.
• Born in 1917, William D. McElroy discovered the enzyme that makes fireflies glow; Head of National Science Foundation (1969-1972).
• Born in 1936, Alan J. Heeger shared the (2000) with Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hidaki Shirakawa "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers."

• Born in 1796, Karl K. Klaus discovered ruthenium (Ru,44) in 1844; pioneer in platinum chemistry.
• Born in 1872, Paul Langevin was a researcher on X-rays and magnetism.
• Born in 1876, Otto Paul Hermann Diels developed the diene synthesis and practical method for making ring compounds from chain compounds (Diels-Alder Reaction); (1950) with Kurt Alder "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis."
• Born in 1918, Gertrude B. Elion was a researcher on the synthesis and development of therapeutic agents; (1988) with James W. Black and George H. Hitching "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment."
• Born in 1929, John C. Polanyi is a researcher who uses infrared chemiluminescence to follow the excited reaction products; (1986) with Dudley R. Hershbach and Yuan T. Lee "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes."

• Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill in northern California, setting off the '49er gold rush (1848).
• Born in 1872, Morris W. Travers codiscovered Krypton (Kr, 36), neon (Ne, 10), xenon (Xe, 54) in 1898 with W. Ramsay; researcher on low temperature.
• Beer first sold in cans (1935).
• B. B. Cunningham and co-workers made first reported observation of absorption spectrum of compound of einsteinium (Es, 99) at University of California, Berkeley (1966).

• Born in 1627, Robert Boyle defined an element; discovered Boyle's law; suggested use of alcohol as biological preservative.
• Martin H. Klaproth reported to the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1798) the discovery of a new element by M. von Reichenstein in 1782 and named it tellurium (Te, 52).
• Born in 1865, William D. Horne was an innovator in refining and manufacturing sugar.
• Born in 1917, Ilya Prigogine was a researcher in irreversible processes; (1977) "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures."
• Born in 1923, Arvid Carlsson shared the (2000) with Paul Greengard and Eric R. Kandel "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system."

• Born in 1881, Claude S. Hudson was a researcher in chemistry of sugars; ACS award in Carbohydrate Chemistry named for him.
• Niels Bohr reported the discovery of nuclear fission by O. Hahn and F. Strassmann at Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Chemistry (1939).

• F. August KekulÉ presented his benzene structure to SociÉtÉ Chimique, Paris (1865).
• Born in 1870, Louis A. Kahlenberg was a pioneer in American physical chemistry.
• Chevron incorporated (1926).

• Born in 1843, Henry C. Bolton was a writer and bibliographer of the history of chemistry.