Chemistry Timeline

  • Boyle's Law

    Robert Boyle proposes his theory
  • Jacques Charles proposes Charles' Law

  • Joseph Proust proposes law of definite proportions

  • Alessandro Volta devises first chemical battery

  • Joseph Dalton proposes Dalton's law

  • J. Jakob Berzelius proposes chemical symbols

  • Amedeo Avogrado proposes Avegrado's law

  • William Prout proposes Prout's hypothesis

  • Michael Faraday isolates benzene

  • Foundatios of spectroscopy

  • Meyer develops early version of periodic table

  • Svante Arrhenius develops ion theory

  • Le Chatelier's principle

  • Werner discovers structures of cobalt complexes

  • Ramsay discovers noble gases

  • J. J. Thomas discovers electron

  • Rutherford discovers source of radioactivity

  • Tsvet invents chromatogoraphy

  • Haber and Bosch develop Haber Process

  • Baekeland invents bakelite

  • pH concept

  • X-ray crystallography established

  • Concept of molecular dipole

  • Quantum mechanical spin

  • Urey discovers deuterium

  • Chadwick discovers neutron

  • Hahn discovers process of nuclear fission

  • Neptunium identified

  • Bartlett syntesizes xenon hexafluoroplatinate

  • Discovery of fullerenes