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3000 BCE
Primitive era
Australopithecus discovered fire and since then used to cook and warm -
2000 BCE
Primitive era
Paints were made with vegetable estracts and semi precious metals were used in the making of jewerly -
1500 BCE
Ancient times
The concept of matter and some of its properties arrise in ancient Greece. -
100 BCE
Alchemy
Starting of the search of the filosopher's stone and the elixir of life -
Iatrochemistry
There start being medicines made with natural substances -
Flogistics
In this year a theory that studies the combustion, is launched by Jeorg Stahl -
Lavoiser's age
in this period Lavoisier was the most important chemist and he presented the scientific method -
Organic chemistry
In this time chemist realized that the elements with carbon and hidrogen were considered organic substances -
Modern chemistry
masterfully explained the chemical bond, introducing the term electronegativity, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and in recognition of his fight against the military use of atomic energy, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. -
Between organic and modern
The beginning of the current chemical can place it in 1887, coinciding with the publication by the Swedish Svante Arrhenius's theory of electrolytic dissociation, this is the breakdown of a substance by the action of the electric current.