NOTABLE CHEMISTS, THEIR BIOGRAPHY AND INVENTIONS (PART 1)
PHILOMATH Saturday, January 26, 2019 Education

As a chemistry student or lover of chemistry, there is need for you to know some noticeable chemists who have contributed greatly in chemistry, that's why I compile this list of notable chemists, the list will still be update because they are more than the number speculated.

1. Marie Curie (nee Sklodowska) (1867 – 1934).

Marie Curie was a Polish immigrant to France. She registered as a student in Paris in 1891. In 1894, she got married to Pierre Curie, but continued her work as a research student. Her topic for investigation was Radio-activity which Becquerel had recently discovered. There was no laboratory for her at the University, so she worked in a shed in her husband’s work place. Pierre was the chief of the laboratory at the School of Physics and Chemistry.
Pierre himself was doing a research in electricity, but his wife’s findings interested him so much that he joined in her research. For that research, the Curies shared the Nobel price with Becquerel in 1903. Marie was awarded the doctorate degree in 1903. In 1904, Pierre was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Paris. With the funds from the Nobel price, he built a laboratory.
However, the new-found joy of the Curies was short-lived, for Pierre died of an accident in 1906. Marie succeeded her husband as Professor of Physics at the University of Paris. She continued her research in radioactivity. In 1911, she became the first (and till now the only) person to be awarded the Nobel price twice. She traced radioactivity to uranium, thorium, polonium (an element she named after her native country), and radium (so called because it radiates light).

2. Joseph John Thompson (1856 – 1940) :

J. J. Thompson was born near Manchester in 1856. He attended Owens College in his hometown between 1870 and 1876, then went to Trinity College from where he graduated in Mathematics and Physics in 1880. He worked in......

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