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1. Abuū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān
2. Alessandro Volta
3. Amedeo Avogadro
4. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
5. Arnold of Villanova
6. The Artificial Sweetener Cyclamate Is Introduced
7. Baekeland Invents Bakelite
8. Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
9. The Becquerel Family
10. Bell Labs Develops Photovoltaic Cell
11. Berg, Gilbert, and Sanger Develop Techniques for Genetic Engineering
12. Brandenberger Invents Cellophane
13. Burton Introduces Thermal Cracking for Refining Petroleum
14. Burton’s Thermal Cracking Process Improves Gasoline Production
15. Calvin Wins the Nobel Prize for His Work on Photosynthesis
16. Carothers Patents Nylon
17. Chaim Weizmann
18. Chemical and Biological Warfare
19. Cohen and Boyer Develop Recombinant DNA Technology
20. Compton Discovers the Wavelength Change of Scattered X Rays
21. Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
22. Domagk Discovers That a Sulfonamide Can Save Lives
23. Du Pont Introduces Freon
24. Du Pont Introduces Neoprene
25. Du Vigneaud Synthesizes Oxytocin, the First Peptide Hormone
26. Duggar Discovers Aureomycin, the First of the Tetracyclines
27. The First Synthetic Vat Dye, Indanthrene Blue, Is Synthesized
28. Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie
29. Friedrich Bergius
30. Friedrich Wöhler
31. Fritz Haber
32. Georg Ernst Stahl
33. Georg von Hevesy
34. Georges Claude
35. Gerhard Domagk
36. Giulio Natta
37. Glenn Theodore Seaborg
38. Haber Develops a Process for Extracting Nitrogen from the Air
39. Hahn Splits an Atom of Uranium
40. Harold C. Urey
41. Heeger and MacDiarmid Discover That Iodine-Doped Polyacetylene Conducts Electricity
42. Henry Cavendish
43. Hermann Staudinger
44. Hodgkin Solves the Structure of Penicillin
45. Hofmann Synthesizes the Potent Psychedelic Drug LSD-25
46. Insecticide Use Intensifies When Arsenic Proves Effective Against the Boll Weevil
47. James Bryant Conant
48. John Dalton
49. John J. R. Macleod
50. John Roebuck