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The Federation of European Chemical Societies (FECS) initiated, as a Millennium Project, the celebration of Distinguished European Chemists spanning a period of over two hundred years.
Member societies and individuals were invited to submit their nominations of distinguished European chemists from the end of the 18th century until the present day. In addition to Nobel Prize winners, there were nominations of many others from Europe who have, over more than two centuries, transformed the science and influenced science, industry or society worldwide. The final list includes a diversity of nationalities. As well as being published in the magazines of the national chemical societies the list is available for viewing here along with a brief biography and details of their achievements
18th. Century
Bergman, Tobern Olof (1735-1784)
Berthollet, Claude Louis (1748-1822)
Black, Joseph (1728-1799)
Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810)
Gadolin, Johan (1760-1852)
Kirwan, Richard (1735-1812)
Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743-1817)
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794)
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilievich (1711-1765)
Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804)
Richter, Jeremias Benjamin (1762-1807)
Ruprecht, Antal (1748-1818)
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (1742-1786)
Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas (1763-1829)
19th. Century
Arrhenius, Svante August (1859-1927)
Auer, Karl (1858-1929)
Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856)
Baeyer, Johan Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf (1835-1917)
Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcelin (1827-1907)
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848)
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-1899)
Butlerov, Alexander Mikhailovich (1828-1886)
Cannizzaro, Stanislao (1826-1910)
Claisen, Ludwig (1851-1930)
Dalton, John (1766-1844)
Davy, Humphry (1778-1829)
de Marignac, Jean Charles Galissard (1817-1894)
Dumas, Jean Baptiste André (1800-1884)
Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
Fischer, Emil (1852-1919)
Frankland, Edward (1825-1899)
Fresenius, Carl Remigius (1818-1897)
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778-1850)
Graham, Thomas (1805-1869)
Hofmann, August Wilhelm (1818-1892)
Kekulé, Friedrich August (1829-1896)
Kolbe, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann (1818-1884)
Laurent, Auguste (1807-1853)
Le Chatelier, Henri Louis (1850-1936)
Liebig, Justus (1803-1873)
Mendeléev, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907)
Meyer, Julius Lothar (1830-1895)
Moissan, Ferdinand Frédéric Henri (1852-1907)
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm (1853-1932)
Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895)
Perkin, William Henry (Sir) (1838-1907)
Proust, Joseph Louis (1754-1826)
Ramsay, William (1852-1916)
Solvay, Ernest (1838-1922)
Stas, Jean Servais (1813-1891)
Ste-Claire Deville, Henri Etienne (1818-1881)
Van 't Hoff, Jacobus Henricus (1852-1911)
Werner, Alfred (1866-1919)
Williamson, Alexander William (1824-1904)
Wöhler, Friedrich (1800-1882)
Wurtz, Charles Adolphe (1817-1884)
20th Century
Aston, Francis William (1877-1945)
Barton, Derek Harold Richard (1918-1998)
Bosch, Karl (1874-1940)
Brönsted, Johannes Nicolaus (1879-1947)
Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-1995)
Curie, Marie (1867-1934)
Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm (1884-1966)
Diels, Otto Paul Hermann (1876-1954)
Grignard, François Auguste Victor (1871-1935)
Haber, Fritz (1868-1934)
Hahn, Otto (1879-1968)
Hantzsch, Arthur Rudolf (1857-1935)
Hassel, Odd (1897-1981)
Haworth, Walter Norman (1883-1950)
Hevesy, Gÿorgy Charles (1885-1966)
Heyrovský, Jaroslav (1890-1967)
Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman (1897-1967)
Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary (1910-1994)
Ingold, Christopher Kelk (1893-1970)
Karrer, Paul (1889-1971)
Kendrew, John Cowdery (1917-1997)
Natta, Giulio (1903-1979)
Noddack, Ida Eva (1896-1978)
Nernst, Walther Hermann (1864-1941)
Pregl, Fritz (1869-1930)
Prelog, Vladimir (1906-1998)
Reppe, Walter Julius (1892-1969)
Robinson, Robert (1886-1975)
Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937)
Ruzicka, Leopold Stephen (1887-1976)
Sabatier, Paul (1854-1941)
Semenov, Nikolay Nikolaevich (1896-1986)
Soddy, Frederick (1877-1956)
Sörensen, Soren Peter Lauritz (1868-1939)
Staudinger, Hermann (1881-1965)
Stock, Alfred (1876-1946)
Svedberg, Theodor H.E. (1884-1971)
Todd, Alexander Robertus (1907-1997)
Tswet, Michail Semënovic (1872-1919)
Wilkinson, Geoffrey (1921-1998)
Willstätter, Richard Martin (1872-1942)
Wittig, Georg Friedrich Karl (1897-1987)
Ziegler, Karl (1898-1973)
Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf (1865-1929)
If you access the FECS website at http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/enc/fecs/100chemists.htm and click on each of the 100 names given above, it will take you to a photography and a short biography.
Useful websites
Great website with links to sources of demonstrations:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/nat_Fak_IV/Organische_Chemie/Didaktik/Keusch/link.htm
Fuel cell models and kits:
A great range of fuel cell kits can be seen at:
http://www.fuelcellstore.com/products/index/demonstration_fuelcell_index.html
Science education journal:
Free science education journal on the internet: check out the archives at
http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/ejse.html
Check out ChemBytes
The Royal Society of Chemistry has an excellent e-zine called ChemBytes with selected articles from Chemistry in Britain and Education in Chemistry online.
http://www.chemsoc.org/chembytes/ezine/2002.htm
Back issues can be accessed to 1996. This is a great way to get access to some excellent back ground material.
If you come across useful websites of interest to chemistry teachers – please send them in.
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