The RAB/RCA Ancestral Family Tree (thanks to A. Jeff Giacomin & R. Byron Bird, Univ. Wisconsin – Madison) Claude Louis Berthollet (1748 - 1822) Jean B. Buquet ( - ) Antoine- Laurent de Lavoisier (1743 - 1794) Guillaume Françis Rouelle (1703 - 1770) Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713 - 1762) = Nicolas Lémery (1645 - 1715) L.C. Bourdelin (1696 - 1777) J.G. Spitzley (ca 1690 – ca 1750) = Christophle Glaser (1615 - 1678) Antoine Vallot (1594 - 1671) Nicaise Le Febvre (ca 1610 - ca 1669) = William Davison (1593 - ca 1669) Jean Herouard (bef 1672 - ca 1672) Guy de la Brosse (ca 1586 - 1641) = Jean Robin (1520 - 1629) Jacques Gohory (Leo Suavius) (1520 - 1576) Theophrastus von Hohenheim Philippus Aureolus; Bombastus (Paracelsus) (1493 - 1541) William Bombast von Hohenheim ( - ) Johannes Trithemius (1462 - 1516) = ⁞ Girolamo Fabrici d′Aquapendente (1533 - 1619) Giulio Cesare Casseri (1552 - 1616) = Johann Friedrich August Göttling (1753 - 1809) Johann Christian Wiegleb (1732 - 1800) Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738 - 1804) = Florenz Sartorius ( - ) Christoph Andreas Mangold (1719 - 1767) Georg Erhardt Hamberger (1697 - 1755) Johann Adolph Wedel (1675 - 1747) Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645 - 1721) Werner Rolfinck (1599 - 1673) Adriaan van den Spieghel (1578 - 1625) Girolamo Fabrici d′Aquapendente (1533 - 1619) Gabriele Fallopio (1523 - 1562) Antonio Musa Brasavola (1500 - 1555) Niccolò da Lonigo (Leoniceno) (1428 - 1524) Pelope (ca 1420/30 - ) Robert Byron Bird (1924 - ) Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder (1911 - 1990) Henry Eyring (1911 - 1990) = Eugene Paul Wigner (1902 - 1995) Michael Polanyi (1891 - 1976) Georg Bredig (1868 - 1944) Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (1853 - 1932) Carl Schmidt (1822 - 1894) Justus von Liebig (1803 - 1873) ⁞ George Ernest Gibson (1884 - 1959) Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (1869 - 1910) = Otto Richard Lummer (1860 - 1925) Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894) Johannes Peter Müller (1801 - 1858) Karl A. Rudolphi (1771 - 1832) August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818 - 1892) Justus von Liebig (1803 - 1873) Joseph Louis Gay Lussac (1778 - 1850) = Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783 - 1857) Nicolo Tartaglia (Fontana) (1499 - 1557) Ostillio Ricci (1540 - 1603) Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) Marin Mersenne (1564 - 1642) René Descartes (1596 - 1650) Frans van Schooten (1615 - 1660) John Wilkins (1614 - 1672) Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz (1646 - 1716) Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) Jacob (Jacques) Bernoulli (1654 - 1705) Johann Bernoulli (1667 - 1748) Gabriel Cramer (1704 - 1752) Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc) (1707 - 1788) Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695) Erhard Weigel (1625 - 1699) = Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703) Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) = Louis Jean Marie Daubenton (1716 - 1800) Antoine Petit (1722 - 1794) = Elias Rudolph Camerarius Jr. (1673 - 1734) Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr. (1641 - 1695) Burchard David Mauchart (1696 - 1751) Johannes Frederick Gronovius II (1696 - 1751) Antoine Françis de Fourcroy (1755 - 1809) Philipp Friedrich Gmelin (1721 - 1768) Laurent Theodor Gronovius II (1730 - 1777) Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727 - 1817) Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet (1746 - 1780) Felix Vicq d′Azyr (1746 - 1794) = Pierre Joseph Macquer (1718 - 1784) Guillaume François Rouelle (1703 - 1770) = Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743 - 1794) Guillaume François Rouelle (1703 - 1770) = Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (1763 - 1829) Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748 - 1804) = Friedrich Stromeyer (1776 - 1835) Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766 - 1839) = ⁞ Leopold Gmelin (1788 - 1853) Friedrich Wühler (1800 - 1882) Harmon Northrop Morse (1848 - 1920) Harry Clary Jones (1865 - 1916) James Newton Pearce (1873 - 1936) Henry Fraser Johnstone (1902 - 1962) Robert Lamar Pigford (1917 - 1988) Leonard Edward “Skip” Scriven (1931 - ) Robert Calvin Armstrong (1948 - ) = Robert Arthur Brown (1951 - )
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The RAB/RCA Ancestral Family Tree
(thanks to A. Jeff Giacomin & R. Byron Bird, Univ. Wisconsin – Madison)
Claude Louis Berthollet
(1748 - 1822)
Jean B. Buquet
( - )
Antoine- Laurent de Lavoisier
(1743 - 1794)
Guillaume Françis Rouelle
(1703 - 1770)
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
(1713 - 1762) =
Nicolas Lémery (1645 - 1715)
L.C.
Bourdelin (1696 - 1777)
J.G.
Spitzley (ca 1690 – ca 1750) =
Christophle Glaser
(1615 - 1678)
Antoine Vallot
(1594 - 1671)
Nicaise Le Febvre
(ca 1610 - ca 1669) =
William Davison
(1593 - ca 1669)
Jean Herouard (bef 1672 - ca 1672)
Guy de la Brosse (ca 1586 - 1641) =
Jean Robin
(1520 - 1629)
Jacques Gohory
(Leo Suavius)
(1520 - 1576)
Theophrastus von Hohenheim
Philippus Aureolus; Bombastus (Paracelsus)
(1493 - 1541)
William Bombast von Hohenheim
( - )
Johannes Trithemius
(1462 - 1516) =
⁞
Girolamo Fabrici d′Aquapendente
(1533 - 1619)
Giulio Cesare Casseri
(1552 - 1616) =
Johann Friedrich August Göttling (1753 - 1809)
Johann Christian Wiegleb
(1732 - 1800)
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738 - 1804) = Florenz Sartorius ( - )
Christoph Andreas Mangold (1719 - 1767)
Georg Erhardt Hamberger (1697 - 1755)
Johann Adolph Wedel
(1675 - 1747)
Georg Wolfgang Wedel (1645 - 1721)
Werner Rolfinck
(1599 - 1673)
Adriaan van den Spieghel (1578 - 1625)
Girolamo Fabrici
d′Aquapendente
(1533 - 1619)
Gabriele Fallopio
(1523 - 1562)
Antonio Musa
Brasavola (1500 - 1555)
Niccolò da Lonigo
(Leoniceno) (1428 - 1524)
Pelope
(ca 1420/30 - )
Robert Byron Bird
(1924 - )
Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder (1911 - 1990)
Henry Eyring (1911 - 1990) = Eugene Paul Wigner (1902 - 1995)
Michael Polanyi (1891 - 1976)
Georg Bredig
(1868 - 1944)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald
(1853 - 1932)
Carl Schmidt (1822 - 1894)
Justus von Liebig
(1803 - 1873)
⁞
George Ernest Gibson (1884 - 1959)
Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg (1869 - 1910) = Otto Richard Lummer (1860 - 1925)
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand
von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894)
Johannes Peter Müller (1801 - 1858)
Karl A. Rudolphi
(1771 - 1832)
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
(1818 - 1892)
Justus von Liebig
(1803 - 1873)
Joseph Louis Gay Lussac (1778 - 1850) = Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783 - 1857)
Nicolo Tartaglia (Fontana)
(1499 - 1557)
Ostillio Ricci (1540 - 1603)
Galileo Galilei
(1564 - 1642)
Marin Mersenne
(1564 - 1642)
René Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Frans van Schooten (1615 - 1660)
John Wilkins
(1614 - 1672)
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz (1646 - 1716)
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691)
Jacob (Jacques) Bernoulli
(1654 - 1705)
Johann Bernoulli (1667 - 1748)
Gabriel Cramer
(1704 - 1752)
Comte de Buffon
(Georges Louis Leclerc) (1707 - 1788)
Christiaan Huygens
(1629 - 1695)
Erhard Weigel
(1625 - 1699) =
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703)
Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715) =
Louis Jean Marie Daubenton
(1716 - 1800)
Antoine Petit
(1722 - 1794) =
Elias Rudolph
Camerarius Jr. (1673 - 1734)
Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr.
(1641 - 1695)
Burchard
David
Mauchart (1696 - 1751)
Johannes
Frederick
Gronovius II (1696 - 1751)
Antoine Françis
de Fourcroy (1755 - 1809)
Philipp
Friedrich
Gmelin (1721 - 1768)
Laurent
Theodor
Gronovius II (1730 - 1777)
Nikolaus Joseph
von Jacquin
(1727 - 1817)
Jean Baptiste Michel Bucquet
(1746 - 1780)
Felix Vicq d′Azyr
(1746 - 1794)
=
Pierre Joseph
Macquer (1718 - 1784)
Guillaume
François Rouelle
(1703 - 1770)
=
Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier
(1743 - 1794)
Guillaume
François Rouelle (1703 - 1770)
=
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin
(1763 - 1829)
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
(1748 - 1804)
=
Friedrich Stromeyer
(1776 - 1835)
Joseph Franz von
Jacquin
(1766 - 1839)
=
⁞
Leopold Gmelin (1788 - 1853)
Friedrich Wühler
(1800 - 1882)
Harmon Northrop Morse
(1848 - 1920)
Harry Clary Jones
(1865 - 1916)
James Newton Pearce (1873 - 1936)
Henry Fraser Johnstone (1902 - 1962)
Robert Lamar Pigford
(1917 - 1988)
Leonard Edward “Skip” Scriven
(1931 - )
Robert Calvin Armstrong (1948 - ) = Robert Arthur Brown (1951 - )
Jean-Baptiste-Michel Bucquet (French pronunciation: [byˈkɛ]; 18 February 1746, Paris – 24 January 1780) was a French chemist, member of the French Royal
Academy of Sciences, physician and royal censor. Bucquet taught a private course in chemistry in his own laboratory prior to becoming professor of chemistry and
natural history in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris. His most famous pupil was Antoine-François Fourcroy. .
Elias Rudolph Camerarius, Sr. (1641–1695) was a professor of medicine who notably wrote books on the palpitations of the heart, pleurisy, skull fractures, and the use
of medicinal plants. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1663 at the University of Tübingen.
Elias Rudolph Camerarius, Jr.
Elias Rudolph Camerarius, Jr. (1673-1734): The younger Camerarius was a physician and professor of medicine at the University of Tübingen. Apparently he had an
abiding interest in mysticism and medical esoterica, and was especially opposed to efforts to explain physiological behaviour mechanically. This places him outside the
main line of historical development of the subject, but it does add a welcome splash of colour to my family tree. He obtained his M.D. in 1691, studying under his father.
(thanks to A. Jeff Giacomin & R. Byron Bird, Univ. Wisconsin – Madison) Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler (31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882) was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to
isolate several chemical elements. Wöhler is regarded as a pioneer in organic chemistry as a result of his (accidentally) synthesizing urea in
the Wöhler synthesis in 1828. This discovery has become celebrated as a refutation of vitalism, the hypothesis that living things are alive
because of some special "vital force". However, contemporary accounts do not support that notion. This Wöhler Myth, as historian of science
Peter J. Ramberg called it, originated from a popular history of chemistry published in 1931, which, "ignoring all pretense of historical
accuracy, turned Wöhler into a crusader who made attempt after attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute vitalism and lift the
veil of ignorance, until 'one afternoon the miracle happened'". Nevertheless, it was the beginning of the end of one popular vitalist
hypothesis, that of Jöns Jakob Berzelius that "organic" compounds could only be made by living things.
Harmon Northrop Morse
Harmon Northrop Morse (October 15, 1848 – September 8, 1920) was an American chemist. Today he is known as the first to have synthesized paracetamol, but this
substance only became widely used as a drug decades after Morse's death. In the first half of the 20th century he was best known for his study of osmotic pressure, for
which he was awarded the Avogadro Medal in 1916. The Morse equation for estimating osmotic pressure is named after him.
Harry Clary Jones
investigated hydrates using conductivity, dissociation, and freezing point lowering measurements, leading to his hydrate theory - in concentrated salt solutions, water
acts not as a solvent but combines with various ions to form a hydrate; first to explain the phenomenon of negative viscosity coefficients; studied absorption spectra of
solutions and their bearing on solvation; prepared cadmium compounds; determined the atomic weights of various elements, such as cadmuim, yttrium, praseodymium,
He studied the properties of electrolytes in non-aqueous solvents, esp. heats of dilution, conductivities, and electromotive forces; investigated the adsorption of gases on
charcoal and metal oxides and its relevance to catalytic reactions such as the formation and decomposition of esters; studied the dissociation of trihalide ions to halide
and halogen in aqueous solution; developed an improved apparatus for measuring boiling point elevations and vapor pressures.
Robert A. Brown (born July 22, 1951) is the 10th president of Boston University. He was formerly the provost of MIT.
He is a chemical engineer by training. A Texas native, he received his B.S. and M.A. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D.
from the University of Minnesota in 1979. In 1979, Brown joined the faculty of MIT as assistant professor. He worked at MIT for 25 years before moving across the
Charles River to become the president of Boston University. During his tenure at MIT, he served as co-director of the MIT Supercomputer Facility, Head of the
Department of Chemical Engineering, and Dean of Engineering. In 1998, he became the provost of MIT. Brown was selected as the 10th president of Boston University
in May, 2005. He was inaugurated in September, 2005, succeeding Aram V. Chobanian, who served as President from October 2003 until June 2005. Brown became an
honorary citizen of Singapore in January 2006. In February 2006, President George W. Bush appointed President Brown to the President’s Council of dvisors on
Science and Technology (PCAST), a panel established to maintain a steady stream of expert advice from the private sector and the academic community on a wide
range of scientific and technical matters. Brown is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, and a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. He is also a member of the Board of the Aalto University.
(thanks to A. Jeff Giacomin & R. Byron Bird, Univ. Wisconsin – Madison) Johannes Trithemius
Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German abbot, lexicographer, historian,
cryptographer, polymath and occultist who had an influence on later occultism. The name by which he is more commonly known is derived
from his native town of Trittenheim on the Mosel in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Trithemius
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 – 24 September 1541)
was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is also credited for giving zinc its name,
calling it zincum, and is regarded as the first systematic botanist. "Paracelsus", meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus", refers to the Roman
encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus
Jacques Gohory
Schooling: Paris; Unknown, LD Gohory studied poetry, music, and the like at the College de Sainte-Barbe. Apparently he began his higher education in Paris, and then
went to some provincial university, which is unknown, to study law. From his status as an avocat to the Parlement I have assumed the legal degree, and I also assume a
B.A. or its equivalent. Later on, after his diplomatic career, he pursued the occult arts including alchemy, as well as natural history.
(1550–1629), French botanist, herbalist, and gardener. He constructed a garden at the downstream end of the Île de la Cité in Paris. The garden was at first named after
Henri IV, who had commissioned it, but since the early seventeenth century it has been known as Place Dauphine; the dauphin was Henri IV's son, the future Louis XIII.
The garden was used to develop and display Robin's collection of ornamental plants, many of which were illustrated (as botanical designs for needlework) in Pierre
Vallet's florilegium of 1608 (Le Jardin du roi très chrétien Henri IV), which illustrated the plants on 75 plates. Robin grew the first false acacia in Europe from seeds
collected in Virginia, and so became the eponym of Robinia pseudoacacia; he also popularized the tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa), and this interest in scented flowers led
eventually to his (anonymous) publication of the Histoire des plantes aromatiques. He also published catalogues of his plants (Catalogus stirpium) in 1601 and 1619.
Guy de La Brosse (1586 – 1641 in Paris), was a French botanist, doctor, and pharmacist. A physician to King Louis XIII of France, he is also
notable for the creation of a major botanical garden of medicinal herbs, which was commissioned by the king. This garden, the Jardin des
Plantes (originally Jardin du Roi) was the first botanical garden in Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_de_la_Brosse
Nicasius le Febure
Le Febure was born and educated in Sedan, going to the Academy there. Vallot, first physician to Louis XIV, appointed him demonstrator of chemistry at the Jardin du
Roi, Paris; Diarist John Evelyn is recorded as having attended a course of his lectures there in February 1647. In 1660 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry to
Charles II of England in 1660, Apothecary in Ordinary to the Royal Family in 1660 and manager of the laboratory at St James's Palace, London. It is believed he became
a naturalised English citizen in 1682. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) on 20th May, 1663. He died in the Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London,
in the spring of 1669. There exists an engraved portrait of him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicasius_le_Febure
Christopher Glaser
He was a native of Basel, became demonstrator of chemistry, as successor of Lefebvre, at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, and apothecary to Louis XIV and to the duke of
Orléans. He is best known through his Traité de la chymie (Paris, 1663), which went through some ten editions in about twenty-five years, and was translated into both
German and English. It has been alleged that he was an accomplice in the notorious poisonings carried out by Madame de Brinvilliers, but the extent of his complicity in
providing Godin de Sainte-Croix poison in the Affair of the Poisons is doubtful. He appears to have died before 1676. The sal polychrestum Glaseri is normal potassium
sulfate which Glaser prepared and used medicinally. The mineral K3Na(SO4) 2 (Glaserite) is named after him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Glaser
Nicolas Lémery
Nicolas Lémery (November 17, 1645 – June 19, 1715), French chemist, was born at Rouen. He was one of the first to develop theories on
acid-base chemistry. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of Christophe Glaser in Paris, and then went to
Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his lectures, but following
1683, being a Calvinist, he was obliged to retire to England. In the following year he returned to France, and turning Catholic in 1686 was
able to reopen his shop and resume his lectures. He died in Paris on the 19th of June 1715.
Werner Rolfink was a German physician, scientist and botanist. He was a medical student in Leiden, Oxford, Paris, and Padua. Rolfink earned his master's degree at the
University of Wittenberg under Daniel Sennert, and his MD in 1625 at the University of Padua under the guidance of Adriaan van den Spiegel. In 1629, he became a
professor at the University of Jena,[2] where he rearranged and expanded the university's botanical garden (the Botanischer Garten Jena). His experimental research
involved chemical reactions and the biochemistry of metals. He rejected the view that other metals could be transformed into gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Rolfinck
Georg Wolfgang Wedel
Georg Wolfgang Wedel (12 November 1645 – 6 September 1721) was a German professor of surgery, botany, theoretical and practical
medicine, and chemistry. Wedel was born in Golßen, Niederlausitz, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Jena
in 1669. He published research on alchemy and harmaceutical chemistry. He studied the plating of copper onto iron using a solution of copper
sulfate and volatile salts obtained from plants. Wedel also invented new medicines and produced a translated German edition of the Greek
Bible. Wedel's sons, Ernst Heinrich Wedel (1 August 1671 – 13 April 1709) and Johann Adolph Wedel (1675–1747) were also physicians.
(thanks to A. Jeff Giacomin & R. Byron Bird, Univ. Wisconsin – Madison) Johann Adolph Wedel
Johann Adolph Wedel (1675–1747) was a German professor of medicine. Wedel was the son of Georg Wolfgang Wedel, also a physician. He received his Doctor of
Medicine degree from the University of Jena in 1697. He published research works on camphor, fermentation, magnesium carbonate, the combustion of sulfur, and
various medical issues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Adolph_Wedel
Georg Erhard Hamberger
Georg Erhard Hamberger (21 December 1697 – 1755) was a German professor of medicine, surgery, and botany. Hamberger was born in Jena, Germany, and received
his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Jena in 1721. He studied the physiology of respiration, especial with respect to breathing. He authored a textbook
on physiology, covering the thorax muscles, intercostal muscles, and pleural sac. He also studied the reaction of camphor and nitric acid. His writings included the study
Christoph Andreas Mangold (1719–1767) was a German professor of anatomy at the University of Jena, who also studied chemistry. Christoph Mangold received his
Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Erfurt in 1751. Mangold is known for his studies of gunpowder and cinnabar as well as the idea that medical
diagnosis should be based upon symptoms, laboratory tests, and comparisons with other patients. He was notably the advisor of Ernst Gottfried Baldinger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Mangold
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (13 May 1738 – 21 January 1804), German physician, was born near Erfurt. He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle
and Jena, earning his MD in 1760 under the guidance of Christoph Mangold and in 1761 was entrusted with the superintendence of the
military hospitals connected with the Prussian encampment near Torgau. He published a treatise in 1765, De Militum Morbis, which met with
a favourable reception. In 1768, he became professor of medicine at Jena, which he left in 1773 for Göttingen, and in 1785 he moved to
Marburg, where he died of apoplexy on 21 January 1804. Among his pupils were Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Johann Friedrich
Blumenbach, and Johann Christian Wiegleb. He wrote approximately 84 separate treatises, in addition to numerous papers scattered through
various collections and journals. He corresponded with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.
Johann Christian Wiegleb (1732-1800) was a notable German druggist and early innovator of chemistry as a science. He was notably the teacher of Johann Friedrich
August Gottling.
Johann Friedrich August Göttling
Johann Friedrich August Göttling (1753-1809) was a notable German chemist. He received his Apothecary degree in 1775 at Langensalza under Johann Christian
Wiegleb. Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beets, to supplement his meagre university salary. He studied
the chemistry of sulphur, arsenic, phosphorus, and mercury. He wrote texts on analytical chemistry and studied oxidation of organic compounds by nitric acid. He was
one of first in Germany to take a stand against the phlogiston hypothesis and for the new chemistry of Lavoisier. He was notably the teacher of Karl Wilhelm Gottlob
Kastner.
Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner
Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (October 31, 1783 – July 13, 1857) was a German chemist and natural scientist. Kastner received his doctorate in 1805 under the
guidance of Johann Gottling and began lecturing at the University of Jena. He moved on to the University of Heidelberg and became professor at the University of Halle
in 1812. In 1818 he relocated to the University of Bonn. Again he moved on, partly for political reasons, to the University of Erlangen, where he remained for the
remainder of his professional life. Liebig, who had come to Bonn to study with Kastner, followed him to Erlangen and received his doctorate in 1822. Many of Kastner's
academic positions required not only the teaching of chemistry, but also mathematics, zoology, physics, mineralogy, geology, and pharmacy. Kastner is best known
today as the teacher of chemist Justus von Liebig.
Otto Richard Lummer (July 17, 1860–July 5, 1925) was a German physicist and researcher.[1] He was born in the city of Gera, Germany. With Leon Arons, Lummer
helped to design and build the Arons–Lummer mercury-vapor lamp.[2] Lummer primarily worked in the field of optics and thermal radiation. Lummer's findings, along
with others, on black body radiators led Max Planck to reconcile his earlier Planck's law of black-body radiation by introducing the quantum hypothesis in 1900.[3]
Lummer died in Breslau.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lummer
George Ernest Gibson
George Ernest Gibson (November 9, 1884– August 26, 1959) was a Scottish born American nuclear chemist. George Ernest Gibson was born Edinburgh, Scotland and
educated partly in Germany where attended a gymnasium in Darmstadt, finishing his schooling in Edinburgh. He studied chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
receiving his B.Sc. in 1906. He worked with Otto Lummer at the University of Breslau where he received his Ph.D in 1911, and stayed there as lecturer for two
additional years before returning to the University of Edinburgh in 1912. In 1913 he became Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Two of his students
were awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, William Giauque and Glenn T. Seaborg. In 1927 he stayed a year with Walter Heitler in Heidelberg. He retired in 1954 and
died in 1959.
Henry Eyring
Henry Eyring (February 20, 1901 – December 26, 1981) was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was
in the study of chemical reaction rates and intermediates. A prolific writer, he authored more than 600 scientific articles, ten scientific books,
and a few books on the subject of science and religion. He received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1980 and the National Medal of Science in
1966 for developing the Absolute Rate Theory or Transition state theory of chemical reactions, one of the most important developments of
20th-century chemistry. Several other chemists later received the Nobel prize for work based on it, and his failure to receive the Nobel prize
was a matter of surprise to many. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences apparently did not understand Eyring's theory until it was too late
to award him the Nobel; the academy awarded him the Berzelius Medal in 1977 as partial compensation. Sterling M. McMurrin believed he
should have received the Nobel Prize but was not awarded it because of his religion. He was also elected president of the American Chemical
Society in 1963 and the Association for the Advancement of Science in 1965.
Georg Bredig (October 1, 1868, Glogau, Niederschlesien, Silesia Province – April 24, 1944, New York) was a German physicochemist (Physikochemist).
He taught at the Karlsruhe University (1911–1933). Handbuch der Angewandten Physikalischen Chemie, Seinen Freunden zur Erinnerung, 1938 (Autobiography)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Bredig
Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi, FRS (March 11, 1891 – February 22, 1976) was a Hungarian–British polymath, who made important theoretical
contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argues that positivism gives a false account of knowing, which, if taken
seriously, undermines our highest achievements as human beings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Polanyi
Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner
Eugene Paul E. P. Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Jenő Pál; November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) FRS was a Hungarian American theoretical
physicist and mathematician. He received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic
nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"; the other half
of the award was shared between Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen. Wigner is important for having laid the foundation for the
theory of symmetries in quantum mechanics as well as for his research into the structure of the atomic nucleus. It was Eugene Wigner who
first identified Xe-135 "poisoning" in nuclear reactors, and for this reason it is sometimes referred to as Wigner poisoning. Wigner is also
important for his work in pure mathematics, having authored a number of theorems.
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Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder
Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder (May 27, 1911–March 30, 1990) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project and in the creation of the nuclear
bomb. Hirschfelder was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a group leader in theoretical physics and ordnance at the Los Alamos Atomic Bomb
Laboratory, chief phenomenologist at the nuclear bomb tests at Bikini, the founder of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute and the Homer Adkins professor emeritus of
chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. Hirschfelder was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded the National Medal of
Science from President Gerald Ford “for his fundamental contributions to atomic and molecular quantum mechanics, the theory of the rates of chemical reactions, and
the structure and properties of gases and liquids.” The National Academies Press called him "one of the leading figures in theoretical chemistry during the period 1935-
90"." In 1991 an award was established in his name by the University of Wisconsin's Theoretical Chemistry Institute - the annual Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in
Robert Byron Bird (born February 5, 1924, Bryan, Texas) is a Chemical Engineer and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his research in Transport phenomena of Non-Newtonian fluids, including fluid dynamics of polymers, polymer kinetic theory,
and rheology. He, along with Warren E. Stewart and Edwin N. Lightfoot, is an author of the classic textbook Transport Phenomena. Bird was a recipient of the National