September 2

  • 1794 - James Marsh, an English chemist who developed the Marsh Test for detecting [arsenic], was born on this day.
  • 1853 - German chemist Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (September 2, 1853 - April 4, 1932), commonly Wilhelm Ostwald, was born on this day. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibrium, and reaction velocities.

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