Ten Discoveries in Chemistry

By Malachi Roldan

  • Oxygen

    Discovered for the first time by a swedish chemist named Carl Wilhelm

  • Synthesis of Urea

    Urea was first isolated from urine by French chemist, Friedrich Wohler

  • Atomic Theory

    John Dalton first suggested the Atomic Theory

  • Electricity Transforms Chemicals

    Alessandro Volta discovered electricity tranforms chemicals

  • Atoms combine into molecules

    Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro found that atmos combine into molecules

  • Chemical Structure

    First confirmed discovery by Friedrich Wolher and Justus von Liebig

  • Atoms have Signatures of Light

    Discovered by Gustav Robert Kirchoff

  • Periodic Table of Elements

    Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev started the development of the periodic table

  • Radioactivity

    French Physicist Antoine Bequerel first discovered radioactivity

  • The Electron

    First discovered by J.J Thomson

  • Plastics

    cheap synthesis methods invented by Leo Hendrick

  • Electrons for Chemical Bonds

    American chemist G. Newton Lewis developed the theory of covalent bonding

  • Fullerness

    The first fullerene was discovered by Harold W. Kroto