Chemistry


1. Discovery of Oxygen - Joseph Priestley and Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1774)

2. Discovery of Hydrogen - Henry Cavendish (1766)


3. Electrolysis of Water - William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle (1800)


4. Discovery of Benzene - Michael Faraday (1825)


5. Synthesis of Urea (Organic Chemistry Breakthrough) - Friedrich Wöhler (1828)


6. Avogadro's Law - Amedeo Avogadro (1811)


7. pH Scale - Søren Sørensen (1909)


8. Discovery of Sulfa Drugs - Gerhard Domagk (1935)


9. Discovery of Fullerene (Carbon Molecules) - Harold Kroto, Robert Curl, and Richard Smalley (1985)