Timeline : Chemistry
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Science Timeline
History of science timeline for biology, chemistry, physics, geology, mathematics, and philosophy of science... |
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A brief history of Opium
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real: André Malraux. The opium poppy is cultivated in lower Mesopotamia. The Sumerians refer to it as Hul Gi... |
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A Timeline of Symmetry
Symmetry in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Many links to the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the University of St Andrews, and to the Nobel Foundation... |
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Timeline of Islamic Scientists
The Alchemy Web Site: Over 90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 1300 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 2000 images, over 200... |
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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was a friar living in 13th century England, who, hundreds of years after his death became popularly known as a powerful sorcerer. He is most widely known among scholars as being one of the... |
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Jan Baptist van Helmont, Discovery CO2
Jan Baptist van Helmont was an early modern period Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be... |
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Robert Boyle, Natural Philosopher
The Honourable Robert Boyle was an Irish natural philosopher, noted for his work in physics and chemistry. He was an alchemist; and believing the transmutation of metals to be a possibility, he carri... |
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Robert Hooke, Natural Philosopher
Robert Hooke - natural philosopher, inventor, architect, chemist, mathematician, physicist, engineer. Robert Hooke is one of the most neglected natural philosophers of all time. The inventor of, among... |
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Fahrenheit, Inventor Thermometer
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and instrument maker. He spent most of his life in the Netherlands, where he devoted himself to the study of physics and the manufacture of precision meteor... |
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Henry Cavendish, Discovery of Hydrogen
Henry Cavendish was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 176... |
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Joseph Priestley, Co-discovery of Oxygen
Joseph Priestley was an English chemist, philosopher, dissenting clergyman, and educator. He is known for his investigations of carbon dioxide and the co-discovery (with Antoine Lavoisier) of oxygen.... |
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Lavoisier, Father of Modern Chemistry
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, was a French noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass, re... |
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John Dalton, First Useful Atomic Theory
John Dalton developed the first useful atomic theory of matter around 1803. In the course of his studies on meteorology, Dalton concluded that evaporated water exists in air as an independent gas. He... |
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Du Pont, Founder DuPont Company - 1802
Among the young men whom Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier deeply influenced was Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834), the founder of the DuPont Company. His father, Pierre Samuel du Pont—an economist, govern... |
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Amedeo Avogadro, Italian Chemist
In 1811 Amedeo Avogadro hypothesized that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. From this hypothesis it followed that relative molecular weigh... |
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