History of being a chemist

By Brendon S.
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    Important discoveries

  • Charles Goodyear

    Charles Goodyear discovers the vulcanization of rubber. Vulcanization means to treat several different chemicals to create rubber

  • Friedrich Wöhler

    Became the first chemist to synthesize an organic compound.

  • Sir William Henry Perkin

    Synthesized the first organic dye and the first synthetic perfume.

  • John Wesley Hyatt

    Initiated the plastics industry by inventing celluloid. This was a transparent platic that was formely used in cintematic film.

  • Henri Moisson

    Developed the eletric furnace for making carbides and preparing pure metals

  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

    Discovered x-radiation and won the nobel prize in 1901.

  • Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson

    Reseach on cathode rays resulted in proof of existence of electrons

  • Thomas Midlgey

    Discovered tetraethyllead and antiknock treatment for gasoline

  • Sir james Chadwick

    Discovered the nuetron

  • Werner Heisenberg

    Developed the orbital theory of chemcal bonding

  • Enrico Fermi

    Achieved controlled nuclear fission

  • F. H. C. Crick

    Developed gene-splicing techniques

  • Willard F. Libby

    Developed radiocarbn dating technique based on carbon-14