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I write a weekly blog on big anniversaries in science history!

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Claude Louis Berthollet was born on #thisday 12/9/1748. He noted chemical reaction completeness depends on reactant mass. Discovered KClO3.
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Jan Ingenhousz was born on #thisday 12/8/1730. He discovered photosynthesis by showing CO2 uptake when plants exposed to light.
Gerard Peter Kuiper was born on #thisday 12/7/1905. He discovered Miranda (Uranus moon) and Nereid (Neptune moon). Kuiper belt named after.
Nicolas Leblanc was born on #thisday 12/6/1742. He developed the process for making soda ash (sodium carbonate) from table salt.
Arnold Sommerfeld was born on #thisday 12/5/1868. He developed an atomic model explaining spectral lines.
On #thisday 12/2/1942, the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated. Nearly caused an atomic explosion in Chicago!
Martin Heinrich Klaproth was born on #thisday 12/1/1743. He discovered Uranium, Zirconium, and Cerium.
Henry Taube was born on #thisday 11/30/1915. He won the 1983 #NobelPrize in #Chemistry for metallic ion oxidation-reduction processes.
Christian Doppler was born on #thisday 11/29/1803. He described the change in observed frequency of "light" relative to the source motion.