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This Week in Chemistry: June 2 - June 8
June 02, 2008 at 01:36 AM
Analtech, Inc. is proud to provide this public service feature - This Week in Chemistry - a recap of major breakthroughs in chemistry as well as the commemoration of key individuals birthdates.
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June 2
b. 1857 Edward Elgar amateur chemist-composer; invented hydrogen sulfide generator.
June 3
b. 1873 Otto Loewi, researcher on chemical transmission of nerve cells; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1936) with Henry H. Dale for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses.
o Robert B. Woodwood synthesized chlorophyll in 1960.
June 4
b. 1877 Heinrich O. Wieland, researcher in organic chemistry & biochemistry; Nobel Prize (1927) for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances.
b. 1916 Robert F. Furchgott, researcher on NO signal transmission in cells; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) with Ferid Murad and Lois J. Ignarro for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
o Henri Moissan isolated fluorine by electrolysis of solution of KHF2 in anhydrous HF, 1886.
o Societé Chemie de Paris was formed, 1857; One year later became the Societé Francais Chemie.
June 5
b. 1760 Johan Gadolin discovered yttrium (Y, 39) 1794.
June 6
b. 1918 Edwin G. Krebs, Nobel Prize in physiology or Medicine (1953) with Edmond H. Fischer for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism.
b. 1943 Richard E. Smalley, research in supersonic beam laser spectroscopy; discovered fullerenes; Nobel Prize (1996) with Robert F. Curl and Harold W. Kroto for their discovery of fullerenes.
June 7
b. 1811 James Y. Simpson, an obstetrician who was first to use chloroform as an anesthetic and introduced the use of ether in Great Britain.
b. 1896 Robert Sanderson Milliken researcher in molecular orbital and electronic structure of molecules; Nobel Prize (1966) for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method.
June 8
b. 1916 Francis H. C. Crick determined structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA); Nobel Prize in Medicine (1962) with James D. Watson & Maurice H. F. Wilkins for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nuclear acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.
b. 1918 John D. Roberts, research on molecular orbital calculations and the application of nuclear magnetic resonance to organic chemistry.
o Edwin M. McMillan & Philip Abelson announced discovery of neptunium (Np, 93), 1940.
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