Important Names and Discoveries Flashcards
(41 cards)
Who articulated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Werner Heisenberg
Who introduced the Wohler Synthesis?
Friedrich Wohler
Who discovered I-131?
Glenn Seaborg
Who coined the term ‘electron’?
George Stoney
Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of argon.
John William Strut, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Who discovered the chair conformation of cyclohexane?
Odd Hassel
He discovered spontaneous radioactivity in uranium.
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Who discovered the structure of benzene?
August Kekule
Who created the first spectroscope?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air.
Sir William Ramsay
Who introduced the concept of chemical potential?
Gilbert N. Lewis
Who discovered the relationship between the elements’ atomic number and frequency of x-rays generated by bombarding the element with high-energy electrons?
Henry Moseley
Who discovered nuclear fission? Discovered radioactive isotopes or uranium, thorium, protactinium, and radium.
Otto Hahn & Lise Meitner
Best known for his discovery of covalent bond and his concept of electron pair.
Gilbert N. Lewis
Who invented C-14 dating?
Williard Libby
Who discovered the VSEPR theory?
Ronald Nyholm
They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for their discovery of the effects of chlorine atoms in ozone depletion.
Sherwood Roland and Mario Molina
Who determined the charge of the electron?
Robert Millikan
Who performed the Cathode Ray Rube experiment?
Sir William Crookes and Heinrich Geissler
Proponent of the Law of Definite Proportions
Joseph Louis Proust
Who discovered ten transuranium elements?
Glenn Seaborg
Who discovered the electron?
Joseph John Thomson
Godfather of Nuclear Fission and Father of Nuclear Chemistry
Otto Hahn
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.
Otto Hahn
