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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...
Heinrich Otto Wieland Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1927)
Heinrich Otto Wieland was born to Dr Theodor Wieland and Elise Blum on June 4 1877 His father was a pharmaceutical chemist Heinrich studied at the Universities of Munich Berlin and Stuttgart and received his doctorate under Johannes Thiele at the Baeyer Labo...
Harold Clayton Urey (1934 Chemistry Nobel Laureate)
Harold Clayton Urey was born on April 29 1893 in Indiana USA He had his early education and preliminary teaching education from rural areas and country schools before he first stepped into University of Montana in 1914 He had a bachelor rsquo s degree in Zoolo...
Otto Hahn (1944 Chemistry Nobel Laureate)
Otto Hahn was born on March 8 1879 at Frankfurt-on-the-Main Germany Otto Hahn was awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize quot for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei quot Otto Hahn is known as the Father of Nuclear Chemistry The prize winning specta...
