History of Chemistry

William Sturgeon

1823

William Sturgeon was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets in 1823, and invented the first practical English electric motor.

G.J Stoney

1874

George Johnstone Stoney was a famous Irish physicist. Proposed that electricity consisted of discrete negative particles he named electrons.

August Kekulé

1890

Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz was a German organic chemist. He discovered the theory of chemical structure. In 1890 he disscoverd Benzene Structure.

Sir Ernest Rutherford

1899

Discovered that uranium radiation is composed of positively charged alpha particles and negatively charged beta particles. He also discovered that the nucleus was small and positively charged.

Alfred Werner

1905

Alfred Werner was a famous swiss inorganic chemist. he was the founder of coordination chemistry. Him founding that won him the Nobel Peacy prize in 1913. In 1905, he separated the lanthanide elements from others.