History of chemistry

Henry cavendish discovers hydrogen

1766

Henry cavendish discovers hydrogen, which he called "inflatable air."

Antoine Lavoisier

1778

Discovered and named oxygen.

Volta

1800

Alessandro Volta created the first chemical battery.

Absolute zero

1848

Absolute zero is the lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale, a state at which the enthalpy and entropy of a cooled ideal gas reach their minimum value, taken as zero kelvins. Absolute zero was discovered By Lord Kelvin.

Friedrich Kekulé

1865

Friedrich Kekulé discovered the structure of the benzene ring after having a dream of a snake eating its own tail.

Modern periodic table

1869

Dmitri Mendeleev came up with a version of the modern periodic table.

Marie Curie discovers radium

Oct 21, 1898

Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium and found that it was a beautiful vibrant green. Because it was this gorgeous color company's put it in everything. Until it was band because it killed lots of people.

Otto Hahn

1939

Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission in uranium.

Gerty Cori

1947

Gerty Cori was a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who was the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science.

Crick and Watson

1953

In 1953 crick and Watson proposed the structure of the DNA molecule.