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Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Believed Incapable of Liquefaction
Hydrogen sulfide gas believed to be incapable of liquefaction until 1818 when Michael Faraday, an English chemist, physicist, and master experimentalist began by cooling the gas in a pressurized environment. Continue reading
First Published Ephemeris
Let’s begin with the definition of the word Ephemeris:
Ephemeris is a table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period or basically a diary of celestial objects positions.
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Kamerlingh Onnes was born in Groningen, Netherlands to father, Harm Kamerlingh Onnes a brickworks owner and mother, Anna Gerdina Coers from Arnhem. Continue reading
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS Hon
FRSC (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a British chemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.
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Mercury a Superconductor?
In 1911, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and Director at the University of Leiden’s Cryogenic Laboratory, discovered that if you cool mercury Continue reading
3D Molecular Analysis of Vitamin B12
Three-dimensional molecular analysis was done of Vitamin B12 in the form of cyanocobalamin, substance aiding in the development of red blood cells. Continue reading
Creation of liquid Helium
In 1908, Dutch physicist, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes figures out a way to prepare liquid helium while working at the University of Leiden’s Cryogenic Laboratory. Continue reading
3D Molecular Analysis of Cholesteryl Iodide
A 3D molecular structure of cholesteryl iodide was created as a complex organic molecule by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1945. Continue reading
First treatise on biophysics
Adolf Fick, a German physicist, published a treatise on biophysics entitled Die medizinische Physik (Medical Physics), its contents detailed the discussion of the fundamental laws governing diffusion and osmosis in living tissues. Continue reading