• Joseph Priestley invented soda water

  • flu shot created by Pasteur

  • French chemist Robiquet isolated caffine

  • Adolf von Baeyer created the dye that colours blue jeans

  • Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist published the periodic table

  • sachurine was discovered by Ira Remsen

  • Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented bakelite (the first plastic)

  • Wallace Carothers created nylon

  • roy plunkett created teflon

  • Albert Hoffman created LSD

  • Frederick Sanger created insuline