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Claude Louis Berthollet was born on #thisday 12/9/1748. He noted chemical reaction completeness depends on reactant mass. Discovered KClO3.
Jan Ingenhousz was born on #thisday 12/8/1730. He discovered photosynthesis by showing CO2 uptake when plants exposed to light.
Gerard Peter Kuiper was born on #thisday 12/7/1905. He discovered Miranda (Uranus moon) and Nereid (Neptune moon). Kuiper belt named after.
Nicolas Leblanc was born on #thisday 12/6/1742. He developed the process for making soda ash (sodium carbonate) from table salt.
Arnold Sommerfeld was born on #thisday 12/5/1868. He developed an atomic model explaining spectral lines.
On #thisday 12/2/1942, the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated. Nearly caused an atomic explosion in Chicago!
Martin Heinrich Klaproth was born on #thisday 12/1/1743. He discovered Uranium, Zirconium, and Cerium.
Henry Taube was born on #thisday 11/30/1915. He won the 1983 #NobelPrize in #Chemistry for metallic ion oxidation-reduction processes.
Christian Doppler was born on #thisday 11/29/1803. He described the change in observed frequency of "light" relative to the source motion.
On #thisday 11/28/1964, Mariner 4 was launched. It would make the first close-up photographs of Mars (flying by on 7/14/65 - 6,118 miles,
Andrew Huxley was born on #thisday 11/22/1917. He won the 1963 #NobelPrize in Medicine for work on the sodium pump mechanism.
Hieronymus Theodor Richter was born on #thisday 11/21/1824. He discovered Indium (In) in 1863 starting with a #flametest.
Patrick Blackett was born on #thisday 11/18/1897. He won the 1948 #NobelPrize in Physics for cosmic radiation discoveries.
Eugene Paul Wigner was born on #thisday 11/17/1902. He won the 1963 #NobelPrize in Physics for quantum mechanics (symmetry principles).