100 Greatest Discoveries

Chemistry (1x6)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 19, 2005

Thirteen building blocks in a science that may be the foundation of the modern world: -Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen -John Dalton's atomic theory -Avogadro's Law -Friedrich Woehler's synthesis of urea -Friedrich Kekule's studies of molecular structure -Dmitry Mendeleyev's Periodic Table -Humphry Davy's electrolysis -J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron -Niels Bohr's model of atomic structure -Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunson's electromagnetic spectroscopy -Marie Curie's isolation of radioactive materials -John Wesley Hyatt and Leo Baekeland's invention of plastics -The discovery of fullerenes