WebGlenn Theodore Seaborg (/ ˈ s iː b ɔːr ɡ /; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the …

WebAda E. Yonath (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes.She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science.. In 2009, Yonath received the Nobel …

WebUsing the Eyring equation, there is a straightforward relationship between ΔG ‡, first-order rate constants, and reaction half-life at a given temperature. At 298 K, a reaction with Δ G ‡ = 23 kcal/mol has a rate constant of k ≈ 8.4 × 10 –5 s –1 and a half life of t 1/2 ≈ 2.3 hours, figures that are often rounded to k ~ 10 –4 s ...

WebRudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems". Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron outer-sphere electron transfer. He is a …

WebWallace Carothers (1896–1937): American chemist and inventor; credited with the invention of nylon; Henry Cavendish (1731–1810): British scientist; noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air"; known for the Cavendish experiment, his measurement of the Earth's density, and early research into electricity

WebThomas Midgley Jr. (May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944) was an American mechanical and chemical engineer.He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known in the United States by the brand name Freon; both products were later banned from common use due to their …

WebVannevar Bush (/ v æ ˈ n iː v ɑːr / van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the …

WebThe American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry.Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields.It is one of the world's largest …

WebHenry Eyring (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist; F. Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist; Michael Faraday (1791–1867), chemist and physicist, discovered Benzene; Hermann von Fehling (1812–1885), German chemist; John Bennett Fenn (1917–2010), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

WebKyriacos Costa Nicolaou (Greek: Κυριάκος Κ. Νικολάου; born July 5, 1946) is a Cypriot-American chemist known for his research in the area of natural products total synthesis.He is currently Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, having previously held academic positions at The Scripps Research Institute/UC San Diego and …