Leo Hendrik Baekeland HonFRSE (November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. Educated in Belgium and Germany, he spent most of his career...
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(2011), MRS Fellow (2009 ), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006), ACS Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (2005), Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (2002), David and...
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cholesteryl benzoate had two different melting points. In 1909, Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented bakelite made from phenol and formaldehyde. In 1928, synthetic...
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Medal, from the Franklin Institute and City of Philadelphia, 1945 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, from the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society...
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ISBN 978-0-8369-0149-8. "Leo Hendrik Baekeland". Science History Institute. June 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2018. Bowden, Mary Ellen (1997). "Leo Hendrik Baekeland". Chemical...
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Brownian motion in a way that definitively proves atomic theory. 1907 Leo Hendrik Baekeland invents bakelite, one of the first commercially successful plastics...
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Lectureship Award 2021 - Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award 2019 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award 2019 - Guggenheim Fellowship 2019 - Eli Lilly Award in Biological...
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Fürstenberg (1946–), Belgian fashion designer based in New York Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgium-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic...
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– Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize 2002 – Feynman Prize 2001 – Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award 2000 – Appointed to chair endowed by George B. Rathmann 1999...
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chemist in America under the age of 35. In 1983, he received the Leo Hendrik Baekeland award for the most distinguished North American chemist under the...
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Science 2004 Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry 2003 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award 1998 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award 1997 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar...
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Biomedical Research: Molecular Basis for Immune Regulation (1992) Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, North Jersey Section of ACS (1993) Eli Lilly Award in Biological...
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Biological Chemistry, 148, 441–3. Thomas, A. W., et al. (1944). Leo Hendrik Baekeland. Science 100, 23–4. Marion, S. P., & Thomas, A. W. (1946). Effect...
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Whitney". "Lighting A Revolution". "ECS - Leo H. Baekeland". "Science History Institute - Leo Hendrik Baekeland". "Science History Institute - Herbert Henry...
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promote traditional Catholic doctrine. Einstein's former physics professor Hendrik Lorentz and the Polish chemist Marie Curie were also members of the committee...
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increased by the publication of private remarks made to Secretary for India Leo Amery, in which Churchill allegedly said aid would be inadequate because...
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hiding. Along with Gies' husband Jan Gies and Voskuijl's father Johannes Hendrik Voskuijl, they were the "helpers" for the duration of their confinement...
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respectively, in the 1860s. Bakelite was developed in 1907–1909 by Leo Baekeland. Ernest Solvay also acted as a major philanthropist and gave his name...
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senior figures of the apartheid regime, including lawyer Percy Yutar and Hendrik Verwoerd's widow, Betsie Schoombie, also laying a wreath by the statue...
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Baseball's Integration That You Won't See in 42". The Atlantic. Hertzberg, Hendrik (May 17, 2013). "Summers of "42"". The New Yorker. Williams, Andrea (April...
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(1793–1846) writer and activist. Founder of the Flemish movement. 32) Leo Baekeland, (1863–1944) chemist. Inventor of bakelite. 33) Lieven Gevaert, (1868–1935)...
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In 1973, Wojtyła met philosopher Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, the wife of Hendrik S. Houthakker, professor of economics at Stanford University and Harvard...
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January – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer in the First World War 23 February – Leo Baekeland, chemical engineer 3 March – Paul-Émile Janson, liberal politician (Buchenwald...
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through the intercession of the mathematician Vito Volterra. Here Fermi met Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein, and became friends with Samuel Goudsmit and...
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Sarnoff Juan Trippe Sam Walton Thomas J. Watson Jr. Scientists & thinkers Leo Baekeland Tim Berners-Lee Rachel Carson Albert Einstein Philo Farnsworth Enrico...
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European producers similar to the MPPC in the United States. February 5 – Leo Baekeland announces the creation of bakelite hard thermosetting plastic. March...
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scientist – Backus–Naur form Karl Baedeker, German business man – Baedeker Leo Baekeland, Belgian inventor – Bakelite William Baffin, British explorer – Baffin...
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1934 – Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857) 1944 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863) 1946 – Tomoyuki Yamashita...
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Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Poland 22 January 1921 4 August 1944 Poet Leo Baekeland United States 14 November 1863 23 February 1944 Chemist Bakelite Ernst...
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Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873) February 23 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-born American chemist (b. 1863) February 24 – Fanny Clar, French...
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