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Slippery Non-Sticky Teflon
Polytetrafluoroethylene PTFE or poly tetrafluoroethylene is popularly known as Teflon was an accidental discovery by Dr Roy Plunkett while working at DuPont USA Roy was an American chemist with a PhD in Chemistry While working on a project one day Roy obser...
Richard Zsigmondy (1925 Chemistry Nobel Laureate)
Richard Zsigmondy was born on April 1 1865 at Vienna Austria to Irma Szakm aacute ry and Adolf Zsigmondy Sr After his father 39 s early death in 1880 he continued his education by his mother rsquo s encouragement Zsigmondy and his siblings spent much of their t...
Whelm Ostwald : 1909 Chemistry Nobel Laureate
Continued from www scienceindia in home view blog 25Born 2nd September 1853 Riga Russian Empire now Latvia Ostwald was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis chemical equilibria and reaction velocities Right up to the end of his ...
Henri Moissan (1906 Chemistry Nobel Laureate)
Henri Moissan was born on 28th September 1852 in Paris France Henri Moissan is the first French Chemist who won the Noble Prize Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee At the time of receiving the award he was work...
