Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, a Dutch physical and organic chemist, was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands on August 30, 1852. Out of a family of seven children Jacobus was the third child. As a student of a private school, he was interested in nature, science, and mathematics.
In 1869 he attended Delft Polytechnic Institute, and thus received his technology degree two years later. Desiring not to be a technology professor, van’t Hoff decided to focus his study on chemistry and pursue a scientific career. Against his father’s wishes, van’t Hoff he enrolled at University of Leiden to study chemistry. From the Netherlands he journeyed to Bonn, Germany to work with A.F. Kekule, and then to Paris for further study. After studying in Leiden, Netherlands and working with A.F. Kekule in Bonn, Germany, van’t Hoff returned to Holland, Netherland in 1874 to obtain his Doctors Degree under Eduard Mulder at the University of Utrecht.
In 1876 van’t Hoff was the Veterinary Professor at the Veterinary College at Utrecht University. After one year of being a Veterinary professor at the University of Amsterdam, he was appointed lecturer in theoretical and physical chemistry. He was the University of Amsterdam their Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology. While at the University of Amsterdam he conducted the studies of reaction rates, chemical equilibrium, chemical affinity, and osmotic pressures that helped found the discipline of physical chemistry. He held this position
Jacob Jennings Brown was born on May 9th 1775 in Bucks County Pennsylvania. His parents Abi and Samuel Brown were Quakers, along with his nine siblings. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1790. After that he became a school teacher in 1795. When he quit being a teacher he moved up in New York where he was a successful farmer.
Harry Van Arsdale Jr. was born during a thirty-three month lock out of Building Tradesmen, by the building and construction industry of New York City. He is the son of a union electrician. Growing up, Arsdale Jr. struggled with the unemployment of his father, leaving major impact on him and his family. Due to his own daily struggle, it gave him the determination to insure his working and their families will succeed with him being a trade union leader.
Since Linus worked many Jobs, he had enough money to attend college. Linus Attended the Oregon Agricultural College. This is where Linus became more fascinated about chemistry. Linus also loved learning about Mathematics and Physics. When Linus was not studying , he was teaching Chemistry to people at the facility. Here he meets his future wife, Ava Miller. The two would also have 4 children. In 1922, Linus attended in the school, “California Institute of Technology.” Linus used X- Ray diffraction to understand how Atoms formed to make Molecules. This new found made him be awarded with a Doctorate in Chemistry/Math. In 1926, Linus went to Europe for 18 months. When Linus returned, he brought knowledge about chemistry that is still in todays
Andrew Ure’s family was very well off, therefore, he was fortunate enough to have a excellent education. After attending and graduating from Glasgow University and also Edinburgh University he became an army surgeon for a brief period of time. Following the military service he decided to go into teaching and became a professor of chemistry and natural philosophy at Anderson College in Glasgow, Scotland. He taught for 20 years and became extremely popular for his evening lectures about chemistry and mechanics. His crowd started with as little as 50 people then grew to about 500 people each lecture.
Attended Harvard and he graduated 21st of 177. He studied in the fields of sciences, German, rhetoric, philosophy, and ancient languages. (1876-1880)
Jacob Lawrence was born on September 7, 1917 in New Jersey. Growing up in the Great Depression, his family was very poor. He lived with his mother and two younger siblings in a house full of crazy, mismatched, colorful décor because of their lack of money. However, these colors fascinated young Jacob Lawrence. His colorful home décor was eventually what inspired his color schemes and meaningful art. Later in his childhood his mother put him in foster care along with his younger siblings because she could not afford to raise them on her own.
He was born in Shelburne Nova Scotia, Canada on December 11, 1892. John’s parents are unlisted, but they did move to New England in their early childhood, even though they divorced soon after. He was strongly encouraged in school by the police commissioner August Vollmer. Larson went to Boston University and to the University of California, Berkeley for medical science.
“After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: ‘The ancient teachers of this science,’ said he, ‘promised impossibilities and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem
Theodore W. Richards, born in Pennsylvania on January 31, 1868, was known for his work in physical chemistry. He was educated by his mother, a poet, and his father, a painter. In 1888 he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. The year after his graduation he spent studying abroad in Germany. Upon his return to Harvard he became a chemistry assistant, then an assistant professor, and finally a professor in 1901. In 1903, he became Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Harvard and 9 years later he was made Erving Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory.
Honor means to hold with high respect or esteem. My view of honor is to give respect to those who deserve it. Dmitri Mendeleev, the creator of the first periodic table, is one of those who deserve the respect honor has to offer. Dmitri Mendeleev was born February 8, 1834. When he was young, his father went blind and couldn’t work.
My Chemist is James Batcheller Sumner. He was born on November 19, 1887 in Canton, Massachusetts. He died on August 12, 1955 in Buffalo, New York. He studied at Cornell University. The type of field of chemistry that he studied in was biochemistry. He obtained his Ph.D degree in June of the year of 1914. For many years his work failed and people doubted him until he had accomplished it in 1926. He had finally crystallized the first enzyme. Completing that he worked in a laboratory of Professor The Svedberg. For crystallizing the first enzyme he got a nobel prize. He shared the prized with two other men that had contributed. They have had received their nobel prize in 1946. He did not work on anything else during his time. This is what James
In 1953, he completed a Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale University, where his doctoral research focused on the inactivation of viruses by heat and ionizing radiation.[11][12] He studied medicine at the University of Rochester for two years, quitting two days into a pediatrics rotation.[12] Then he became a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics
Prize’s are put into place to award gifted beings; whose work has or will make a significant change in mankind. Most importantly, they are recognize by their genius and not judging their area of expertise. When the awarded person wins the prize, there is always a level expectation that is expected of them. In the history of science, there have been many achievements that have motivated by human to not only live to the fullest of their potential but to live as long and healthy life as they can. These victories in medicine have started the courage for all human being all over the world having the confidence to live their lives without a disease or bacteria infection that now days can be cured without any problem taking their life. Given Antony Van Leeuwenhoek along with his many contributions to science, there is no better nominee for an award that demonstrated the constitutional achievements in biotechnology. A tradesman and inventor in the biotechnology society he is undeniably deserving of The Carleton Prize of Biotechnology. Antony van Leeuwenhoek’s experimentation of lenses for microscopic research, and his inventions which increased magnification, research and development there would be many unanswered question in the medical world.
Dmitri mendeleev was a famous chemist who was born in a small village in Russia in the eighteen hundreds. His early life maybe considered quite harsh. Mendeleev's father, Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev, was a teacher of fine arts, politics, and philosophy. When his father went blind and lost his teaching position, his mother was forced to work so she re-opened the family glass factory. His father then died when mendeleyev was only thirteen and two years later the glass factory burned down. His m other determined to give her son a higher education , the both of them walked across Russia to the nearst university, University of moscow. The university did not accept mendeleev so him and his mother set out on another journey to St. Petersburg. He was
I. Sub-subpoint 1 He enrolled in school in 1875 at Austrian polytechnic where he studied electrical engineering and later went to study at Charles Ferdinand University. According to biography.com, he never acquired a degree at Ferdinand University (biography.com).