Development of Chemistry in 20th Century

1. Discoveries

1.1. 1906

1.1.1. Separation of Rare Earth Elements

1.2. 1905

1.2.1. Helium in Natural Gas

1.3. 1928

1.3.1. Raman Effect

1.3.2. Discovery of Penicillin.

1.4. 1931

1.4.1. Deuterium

1.5. 1932

1.5.1. Discovery of Neutron

1.6. 1935

1.6.1. Beckman pH meter

1.6.2. Synthesis of Physostigmine

1.7. 1939

1.7.1. Antibiotic Streptomycin.

1.8. 1940

1.8.1. Neptunium

1.9. 1941

1.9.1. Plutonium

1.10. 1945

1.10.1. Promethium

1.11. 1946

1.11.1. Radioisotopes.

1.12. 1951

1.12.1. Polypropylene and HDPE

1.13. 1956

1.13.1. Diagnostics Test Strips

1.14. 1960

1.14.1. Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

1.15. 1966

1.15.1. Camptothecin and Taxol

1.16. 1969

1.16.1. Cotton Product Research

1.17. 1983

1.17.1. Acetyl Chemicals from Coal

1.18. 1985

1.18.1. Discovery of Fullerenes

1.19. 1995

1.19.1. Bose-Einstein Condensate

2. Ideas

2.1. 1905

2.1.1. Brownian motion

2.1.2. Haber Process

2.2. 1913

2.2.1. Concept of Atomic Number

2.2.2. Concept of isotopes

2.2.3. Mass Spectrometry

2.3. 1925

2.3.1. Pauli's Exclusion Principle

2.4. 1927

2.4.1. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

2.5. 1937

2.5.1. Houdry Process

2.5.2. Vitamin C.

2.6. 1947

2.6.1. Carbohydrate Metabolism

2.7. 1953

2.7.1. Macromolecules

2.7.2. Flavor Chemistry Research

2.7.3. Acrylic Emulsion Technology

2.8. 1957

2.8.1. Radiation Chemistry

2.9. 1960

2.9.1. Sohio Acrylonitrile Process

2.10. 1961

2.10.1. Deciphering Genetic Code

2.11. 1962

2.11.1. Noble Gas Chemistry

3. Important Works

3.1. 1916

3.1.1. "The Atom and the Molecule"

3.2. 1934

3.2.1. Artificial Radioactive Elements

3.3. 1939

3.3.1. "The Nature of the Chemical Bond"

3.4. 1962

3.4.1. "Silent Spring"

3.5. 1992

3.5.1. "Williams- Miles Collection"

4. ⚙️Inventions

4.1. 1907

4.1.1. ⚙️First plastic.

4.2. 1908

4.2.1. ⚙️Geiger Counter

4.3. 1930

4.3.1. ⚙️Scotch Tape.

4.3.2. ⚙️Cyclotron

4.4. 1932

4.4.1. ⚙️Paper from Pine Trees

4.5. 1939

4.5.1. ⚙️Nylon.

4.6. 1941

4.6.1. ⚙️Kem-Tone Wall Finish

4.6.2. ⚙️Deep Tank Fermentation

4.7. 1946

4.7.1. ⚙️Tide Detergent

4.8. 1948

4.8.1. ⚙️Frozen Foods

4.9. 1957

4.9.1. ⚙️Dehydration Technology

4.9.2. ⚙️DayGlo Fluorescent Pigments

4.10. 1958

4.10.1. ⚙️Carbon Fibers

4.11. 1960

4.11.1. ⚙️NMR Spectrometer

4.12. 1973

4.12.1. ⚙️MRI Imaging

4.13. 1976

4.13.1. ⚙️Tagamet

5. Experiments

5.1. 1909

5.1.1. Oil drop experiment

5.2. 1911

5.2.1. Gold foil experiment

5.3. 1913

5.3.1. Bohr Model

5.4. 1938

5.4.1. Nuclear Fission