"A French saltpetre manufacturer, Courtois, in 1811 discovered a strange substance in the soda obtained from sea plant…"

"Laurent, in 1837, striving after the real truth of substitution, had pictured the organic molecule as a prism, the an…"

"From this time oxygen began to be conventionally spoken of as the "supporter of combustion," and substances which bur…"

"Gay-Lussac was one of the most brilliant of the French chemists, and spent his whole life in research. His principal …"

"In 1812 [Humphry Davy's] Elements of Chemical Philosophy was published, and next year he travelled on the Continent. …"

"Berthollet's conclusion that chlorine is oxymuriatic acid was universally accepted until Gay-Lussac and Thénard in 18…"

"Never have experiments been conducted with greater care, caution, and exactitude than those of Stas. It is said that …"

"Meyer published along with [Paul] Jacobson a "Text book of Organic Chemistry" [Lehrbuch der Organischen Chemie], whic…"

"Curious relations, triads and octaves, were discovered to exist among the atomic weights of substances possessing sim…"

"In developing his ideas of nuclei which were used as a basis of classification in Gmelin's large Handbook of Chemistr…"