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- 2011
- Professor Jeff Moore invents polymers that heal themselves.
- 2011
- Professor Wilfred van der Donk and team biosynthesize potent antibiotic in a test tube
- 2011
- Professor M. Christina White makes catalysts that make remarkable chemical reactions happen
- 2011
- Professor Deborah Leckband measures the stickiness of cells to understand cancer metastasis and wound healing
- 2011
- Professor Kenneth Suslick invents seeing nose that can detect chemicals.
- 2011
- Professor Ralph Nuzzo brings unprecedented forms of function from materials.
- 2011
- Professor Nancy Makri simulates the dynamics of quantum fluids.
- 2011
- Professor Cathy Murphy discovers how to control the shape of metallic nanoparticles
- 1916
- St. Elmo Brady breaks a barrier as first African American Ph.D. in chemistry
- 1972
- Paul Lauterbur invents the MRI
- 1942
- World War II effort aided by Charles Price's improved antimalarial synthesis
- 1939
- Ludwig Frederick Audrieth discovers artificial sweetener
- 1978
- Kenneth L. Rinehart isolates anticancer drug ET743 from a Caribbean sea squirt
- 1939
- William C. Rose discovers the essential amino acid threonine.
- 1938
- Worth H. Rodebush pioneers the use of infrared absorption spectroscopy.
- 1934
- John C. Bailar initiates work leading to the monicker: 'father of coordination chemistry'.