Royal Society of Chemistry

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Royal Society of Chemistry

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Formed 1980 by merger of Chemical Society of London (founded 1841; a/k/a British Chemical Society), Faraday Society (founded 1903), Royal Institute of Chemistry (founded 1877 as Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain), and Society for Analytical Chemistry (founded 1874).

Official Website:
http://www.rsc.org/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Herbert C. Brown Chemist 22-May-1912 19-Dec-2004 Discovered organoboranes

John B. Fenn Chemist 15-Jun-1917 10-Dec-2010 Electrospray ionization

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood Chemist 19-Jun-1897 9-Oct-1967 The Kinetics of Chemical Change

Roald Hoffmann Chemist 18-Jul-1937 Woodward-Hoffmann reaction

Sir Harold Kroto Chemist 7-Oct-1939 Co-Discovered fullerenes

Jean-Marie Lehn Chemist 30-Sep-1939 Synthesis of molecules

William Lipscomb Chemist 9-Dec-1919 14-Apr-2011 Chemical bonding

Rudolph A. Marcus Chemist 21-Jul-1923 Electron-transfer reactions

Robert S. Mulliken Chemist 7-Jun-1896 31-Oct-1986 Molecular orbital theory

Giulio Natta Chemist 26-Feb-1903 2-May-1979 Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization

Ronald G. W. Norrish Chemist 9-Nov-1897 7-Jun-1978 Rapid chemical processes

Ryoji Noyori Chemist 3-Sep-1938 Chiral catalysts

John C. Polanyi Chemist 23-Jan-1929 Infrared chemiluminescence

Martyn Poliakoff Physicist 16-Dec-1947 The Periodic Table of Videos

George Porter Chemist 6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Rapid chemical and biological processes

Sir Robert Robinson Chemist 13-Sep-1886 8-Feb-1975 Researcher of alkaloids

Glenn Seaborg Physicist 19-Apr-1912 25-Feb-1999 Co-Discoverer of Plutonium

Nikolay Semyonov Chemist 15-Apr-1896 25-Sep-1986 Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics

Richard L. M. Synge Chemist 28-Oct-1914 18-Aug-1994 Partition chromatography

Henry Taube Chemist 30-Nov-1915 16-Nov-2005 Mechanisms of electron transfer

Alexander R. Todd Chemist 2-Oct-1907 10-Jan-1997 Nucleic acid, nucleotides

Georg Wittig Chemist 16-Jun-1897 26-Aug-1987 Wittig Reaction

Robert B. Woodward Chemist 10-Apr-1917 8-Jul-1979 Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.

Kurt Wüthrich Chemist 4-Oct-1938 Magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Ahmed H. Zewail Chemist 26-Feb-1946 Femtochemistry

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