Showing posts with label scientists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scientists. Show all posts

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Famous Chemists and their Contributions

Chemistry is a subject that studies components various substances and what are they made up of. Every individual comes across chemistry as a part of his or her routine life at some point of time. Even though it is a part of our everyday life, chemistry is a vast subject and a dynamic one as well. What we know of chemistry today is due to the major contributions made by the chemists who demystified the mystical world of alchemy into chemistry.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Women in Chemistry

If you were asked to name a woman who made important contributions to the field of chemistry, the person who would likely come to mind is Marie Curie. Madame Curie was awarded both the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work with radioactivity and radioactive elements. Can you name other female scientists, engineers, and inventors who have advanced chemistry?

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