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Not-so-common chemical engineering and science trivias (for fun)

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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 Strutt, 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 the 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?

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Otto Hahn & Lise Meitner

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Best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs

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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
Mario Molina

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Who determined the charge of the electron?

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Robert Millikan

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Who performed the Cathode Ray Tube experiment?

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Sir William Crookes and Heinrich Geissler

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Proponent of the Law of Definite Proportions

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Joseph Louis Proust

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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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J.J. Thomson

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Godfather of Nuclear Fission

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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
Robert Robinson
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Who discovered the neutron?
James Chadwick
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Who proposed the law of octaves?
John Newlands
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Who discovered the element rubidium?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
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Who created the first radioactive nuclide (P-30)?
Irene-Joliot Curie & Frederic Joliot
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Who coined the term ‘radioactivity’?
Marie Curie
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Who explained the essence of entropy 27 years after its introduction?
Ludwig Boltzmann
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Who demonstrated that rate constants vary with temperature?
Svante Arrhenius
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Who introduced the concept of entropy?
Rudolf Clausius
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Who suggested the concept of resonance?
Linus Pauling
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Who discovered nuclear transmutation
Ernest Rutherford
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Proponent of the Laws of Multiple Proportions
John Dalton
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Who discovered hydroboration-oxidation reaction?
Herbert Brown
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Who discovered the element helium during the 1686 solar eclipse?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
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Who discovered x-rays?
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
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Proponent of the Law of Conservation of Mass
Antoine Lavoisier
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Who discovered the element caesium?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
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1923 Nobel Physics Laureate who demonstrated the wave-particle duality
Robert Millikan
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Who synthesized urea from the inorganic compound ammonium cyanate?
Friedrich Wohler
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He proposed that energy, like matter, is discontinuous.
Max Planck
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Who described electron group geometries?
Ryutaro Tsuchida
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They received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on radiation phenomena
Henri Becquerel Pierre Curie Marie Curie
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He reacted inorganic carbon disulfide to produce organic acetic acid.
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
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Who determined the ratio of electric charge to the mass of an electron?
J.J. Thomson
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Who discovered free radical addition of HBr to alkenes?
Morris Kharasch
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Received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
Albert Einstein
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1911 Nobel Chemistry Laureate who discovered the elements radium and polonium
Marie Curie
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Who discovered the proton?
Ernest Rutherford
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Father of Chemical Engineering
George E. Davis
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Who coined the term ‘isomers’?
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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What elements were discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers?
In order of discovery: Neon, Krypton, Xenon
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Who discovered radon from the radioactive decay of radium?
Sir William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy
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Who proposed to arrange the elements by their atomic masses (Independent of the work of Dmitri Mendeleev)
Lothar Meyer
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Who isolated helium from the uranium ore, cleveite?
Sir William Ramsay
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Who first proposed the actinide concept?
Glenn Seaborg
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Father of Nuclear Chemistry
Otto Hahn
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Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized?
James B. Sumner
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Who proposed the planetary model of the atom in which electrons located away from the nucleus possess more energy than those closer to the nucleus?
Niels Bohr
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He introduced the London dispersion forces
Fritz London
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They were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of fullerenes
Richard E. Smalley Robert F. Curl, Jr. Harold Kroto
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Architect of geodetic domes whose name was the inspiration for buckyballs
Buckminster Fuller
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Received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemical pathways of photosynthesis
Melvin Calvin
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Introduced the 3,3-sigmatropic rearrangements
Arthur Cope and Elizabeth Hardy
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Introduced the first standard screw thread
Joseph Whitworth
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Suggested the use of permutit for water softening
Robert Gans
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He coined the term polymer to denote molecular substances of high molecular mass formed by polymerization
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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Proponent of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Ralph Howard Fowler
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Proponent of the First Law of Thermodynamics
Rudolf Clausius
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He proved the law of conservation of energy by performing the experiment wherein energy is added to water as work but is extracted as heat
James Prescott Joule
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Father of Thermodynamics
Sadi Carnot
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Who discovered phenolphthalein?
Adolf von Baeyer
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Who discovered hydrogen peroxide?
Louis-Jacques Thenard
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Who first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)?
Albert Hofmann
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Who was the first to prepare chlorine gas by oxidizing NaCl with manganese oxide?
C. W. Scheele
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Who discovered salicylic acid?
Raffaele Piria
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Who discovered acetylsalicylic acid?
Felix Hoffmann
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He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the effects of NOx in ozone depletion
Paul Crutzen

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