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Important Names and Discoveries Flashcards

1
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Who articulated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Werner Heisenberg

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Who introduced the Wohler Synthesis?

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Friedrich Wohler

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Who discovered I-131?

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Glenn Seaborg

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Who coined the term ‘electron’?

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George Stoney

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Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of argon.

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John William Strut, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

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Who discovered the chair conformation of cyclohexane?

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Odd Hassel

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He discovered spontaneous radioactivity in uranium.

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Antoine Henri Becquerel

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Who discovered the structure of benzene?

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August Kekule

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Who created the first spectroscope?

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Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff

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Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air.

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Sir William Ramsay

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Who introduced the concept of chemical potential?

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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Who discovered the relationship between the elements’ atomic number and frequency of x-rays generated by bombarding the element with high-energy electrons?

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Henry Moseley

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Who discovered nuclear fission? Discovered radioactive isotopes or uranium, thorium, protactinium, and radium.

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Otto Hahn & Lise Meitner

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Best known for his discovery of covalent bond and his concept of electron pair.

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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Who invented C-14 dating?

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Williard Libby

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Who discovered the VSEPR theory?

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Ronald Nyholm

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They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for their discovery of the effects of chlorine atoms in ozone depletion.

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Sherwood Roland and Mario Molina

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Who determined the charge of the electron?

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Robert Millikan

19
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Who performed the Cathode Ray Rube experiment?

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Sir William Crookes and Heinrich Geissler

20
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Proponent of the Law of Definite Proportions

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Joseph Louis Proust

21
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Who discovered ten transuranium elements?

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Glenn Seaborg

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Who discovered the electron?

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Joseph John Thomson

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Godfather of Nuclear Fission and Father of Nuclear Chemistry

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Otto Hahn

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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.

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Otto Hahn

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He postulated that reaction behavior is due to the movement of electrons.

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Robert Robinson

26
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Who discovered the neutron?

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James Chadwick

27
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Who proposed the law of octaves?

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John Newlands

28
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Who discovered the element rubidium?

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Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff

29
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Who created the first radioactive nuclide (P-30)?

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Irene-Joliot Curie & Frederic Joliot

30
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Who coined the term ‘radioactivity’?

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Marie Curie

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Who explained the essence of entropy 27 years after its introduction?

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Ludwig Boltzmann

32
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Who demonstrated that rate constants vary with temperature?

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Svante Arrhenius

33
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Who introduced the concept of entropy?

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Rudolf Clausius

34
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Who suggested the concept of resonance?

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Linus Pauling

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Who discovered nuclear transmutation? Known for his expansive work on disintegration of elements and the chemistry around radioactive nuclide.

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Ernest Rutherford

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Proponent of the Laws of Multiple Proportions.

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John Dalton

37
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Who discovered hydroboration-oxidation reaction?

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Herbert Brown

38
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Who discovered the element helium during the 1868 solar eclipse?

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Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer

39
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Who discovered x-rays?

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Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen

40
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Proponent of the Law of Conservation of Mass

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Antoine Lavoisier

41
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Who discovered radiation?

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Henri Becquerel

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