Interesting famous chemists for lecture?

I'm supposed to give a chemistry lecture about a chemist who, at best, won a Nobel Prize. The lecture should focus more on the person than on his discoveries. So, there's a chemist with a particularly interesting CV. I'm in the 13th grade at a high school.

Thanks in advance!

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JenerDerBleibt
2 months ago

When it comes to the person, Fritz Haber might be interesting. Together with Carl Bosch, he developed the Haber Bosch process for the industrial synthesis of ammonia. This has made the mass production of fertilizers and therefore also food possible. (I think there is an estimate that we could only feed about half the current world population if there were no such procedure).

But he also has a big negative side. Fritz Haber was the head of the German host groups in the First World War and has developed some chemical fighting materials.

Accordingly, he is such a two-edged sword of science.

LeBonyt
2 months ago
Reply to  JenerDerBleibt

Two souls eon thought.

Kelec
2 months ago

Friedrich Wöhler is not a term for many, although he did something that seemed impossible for some, and opened a new field of chemistry, namely the synthesis of urea of an organic substance from non-organic starting materials.

He was a pioneer in biochemistry.

In my opinion, the CV is also interesting as he was originally a teacher and became a professor through royal decree.

Also the story of Wöhler’s friend, Justus von Liebig I find interesting

werwiewas99
2 months ago

Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling are interesting personalities.

I would also like to call you Justus von Liebig, about whom there is enough docus for your research.

knifge
2 months ago

For your lecture, you could consider these chemists:

  1. Marie Curie – She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and has revolutionized the field of radioactivity. Her story is exciting as she had to overcome many hurdles as a woman in science.
  2. Linus Pauling – Pauling won both the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize. He was an outstanding scientist and at the same time a committed activist against nuclear weapons.
  3. Rosalind Franklin – It contributed decisively to the discovery of the DNA structure, although its role has not been recognised for a long time. Their history is especially due to the challenges she had as a woman in science.
  4. Richard Feynman – Although he was a physicist, Feynman had a great influence on chemistry and was well known for his extraordinary personality and his ability to explain complex topics.
Hafnafir
2 months ago

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Nobelpreistr%C3%A4ger_f%C3%BCr_Chemie

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most broadly and with most information, movies and so on, Marie Curie might be…

botanicus
2 months ago

Antoine de Lavoisier

Tannibi
2 months ago

If it may also be one that donates a Nobel Prize
has: Alfred Nobel. He was a chemist and had a very interesting life.

Or Otto Hahn, who, as a chemist, plays a key role in
Research into nuclear fission has contributed.

botanicus
2 months ago
Reply to  Tannibi

Core cleavage is physics

Tannibi
2 months ago
Reply to  botanicus

That’s the interesting thing. Otto Hahn was a chemist
and contributed to this. Lise Meitner,
worked with him, too, but she was a physicist.

horribiledictu
2 months ago

Marie Curie