What is the history of chemistry?
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Here's a nice web site that cover it all, if you're doing a paper, and have a LONG time to go over A LOT of material!
ref: http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/...
ALchemists
discovery of the elements, and amounts
Mendeleev
Organic Chem , and Biochem, DNA, and medicines
Wow. I don't think you want a treatise on the history of Chemistry, but I can give you some of the big names to research. Early Chemistry and Physics are mixed and people who are considered Physicists may have had a major impact on Chemistry. Look these guys up:
Robert Boyle
Antoine Lavoisier
John Dalton
Dmitri Mendeleev
Physicists with major impact (understanding the atom):
J.J. Thompson
Robert Millikan
Ernest Rutherford
Neils Bohr
Erwin Schroedinger
Albert Einstein
Louis de Broglie (and his son)
William Bragg (and his son)
Other big impact Chemist:
Alfred Nobel
Linus Pauling (understanding chemical bonding)
Fritz Haber
Once you get well into the 20th Century, the field of Chemistry begins to split into sub-disciplines and there are guys who had a major impact on each of these sub-disciplines. There are many others that I have left out:
Kekule, Nerst, Erst, Arrhenius...
I am a Physical Chemist, so I'm sure an Organic Chemist could whip up many more. Go to nobelprize.org and check out some of the writeups. If they won the prize, then they had a major contribution.
Chemistry started as alchemy to find out Philosopher's stone and elixure of life. It yielded in modern chemistry with enormous development in this field.
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