Physical Chemistry

The Philosopher’s Quest

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Here Comes the Spray Man!

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Lawrence and team, 1938

Large and in Charge

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Kenneth Davis
Research

Ronald C. Cohen
Research
Donald Tomalia.

Donald A. Tomalia
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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Anna J. Harrison.

Anna Jane Harrison
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John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by William Henry Worthington after an 1814 painting by William Allen, published June 25, 1823, in Manchester and London. Note the charts with Dalton’s atomic symbols lying on the table.

John Dalton
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Lavoisier. Engraved by François Séraphin Delpech, after a drawing by Belliart, after the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito
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J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
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Michael Faraday. Engraved by D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Michael Faraday
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William Ramsay.

William Ramsay
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An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Humphry Davy
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Maud Menten, pictured here in her youth.

Leonor Michaelis and Maud Leonora Menten
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Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin
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Lise Meitner.

Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann
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Svante August Arrhenius.

Svante August Arrhenius
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Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff in 1904.

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
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Ernest Rutherford in academic garb.

Ernest Rutherford
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Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
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Periodic Table

Mendeleev’s Legacy: The Periodic System

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