Chemistry of popcorn aroma & popping!

Popcorn, also known as popping corn, is a type of corn. It can come up with usually salted or sweetened flavors. Many people like the odor of popcorn. Some people especially l ...

John Roberts – pioneer in physical organic chemistry

Biography & contributions John Roberts [John Dombrowski Roberts] is born on June 08, 1918 Roberts is an American chemist Awards 1954, American Chemical Society Award ...

Robert Sanderson Mulliken – developer of molecular orbital theory

Biography & contributions Robert Sanderson Mulliken was born on June 07, 1896 Mulliken was a was an American physicist and chemist and Nobel laureate In 1966 He was awa ...

Richard Smalley – discoverer of buckminsterfullerene

Biography & contributions Richard Smalley was born on June 06, 1943 Smalley was a Professor of Chemistry and Nobel laureate Awards & Prizes 1991, Irving Langmuir P ...

Johan Gadolin – discoverer of yttrium & gadolinium elements

Biography & contributions Johan Gadolin was born on June 05, 1760 Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist He discovered yttrium, gadolinium rare earth ...

William Standish Knowles – designer of chiral catalysts

Biography & contributions William Standish Knowles was born on June 01, 1917 Knowles was an American chemist and Nobel laureate In 2001 He got Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Nils Gabriel Sefstrom – rediscoverer of vanadium element

Biography & contributions Nils Gabriel Sefstrom was born on June 02, 1787 Sefstrom was a Swedish chemist In 1830 He rediscovered vanadium element To contact the author ...

Otto Loewi – discoverer of chemical transmission of nerve impulses

Biography & contributions Otto Loewi was born on June 03, 1873 Loewi was a German pharmacologist and Nobel laureate Awards 1936, Nobel Prize for Medicine 1944, Camero ...

Heinrich Otto Wieland – pioneer in bile acids chemistry

Biography & contributions Heinrich Otto Wieland was born on June 04, 1877 Wieland was a German chemist and Nobel laureate In 1927 He won Nobel Prize in chemistry In 19 ...

Lars Fredrik Nilson – discoverer of scandium element

Biography & contributions Lars Fredrik Nilson was born on May 27, 1840 Nilson was a Swedish chemist In 1879 He discovered scandium element Nilson determined the valen ...

Louis Ignarro - Father of Viagra

Biography & contributions Louis Ignarro [Louis J. Ignarro] is born on May 31, 1941 Ignarro is an American pharmacologist and Nobel laureate Awards 1974, Merck Research ...

Julius Axelrod – co-discoverer of acetanilide

Biography & contributions Julius Axelrod was born on May 30, 1912 Axelrod was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate He also made major contributions to the understa ...

Antoine Bussy – isolated beryllium element

Biography & contributions Antoine Bussy was born on May 29, 1794 Bussy was a French chemist He described a method for preparing magnesium Bussy isolated beryllium To ...

John C. Bailar, Jr. - Father of Coordination Chemistry

Biography & contributions John C. Bailar, Jr. [John Christian Bailar, Jr.] was born on May 27, 1904 Bailar was a professor of Inorganic Chemistry He is referred to as t ...

George Olah – pioneer in carbocations studies

Biography & contributions George Olah [George Andrew Olah] is born on May 22, 1927 Olah is a Hungarian and American chemist and Nobel laureate Awards 1964, Recipient o ...