Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received the patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844. Take a look below for 26 more strange and interesting facts about Charles Goodyear. 1. Goodyear is credited with inventing the chemical process…
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Carl Bosch was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world’s largest chemical company. Take a look below for 26 more weird and interesting facts about Carl Bosch. 1. Bosch was born…
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. Take a look below for 30…
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James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. Take a look below for 30 more…
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. Known for inventing dynamite, Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannons and other armaments. Take a look below for 30 more fascinating and interesting facts…
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Louis Pasteur was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. He’s also known for his breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of diseases. Take a look below for 30 more fascinating and interesting facts about Louis Pasteur. 1. Pasteur reduced mortality rates from…
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Marie Sklodowska Curie was a Polish and naturalized French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences and was part of the Curie…