Five Great Chemists

Robert Boyle First latter-day chemist Robert Boyle, never immune to laboratory toil, practical laws on volume and pressure, inherited as a science world treasure Svante Arrhenius The bright Swedish type named Arrhenius, was renowned for his passionate genius, in the physics and chemistry realm, do his practical concepts still overwhelm Dorothy Hodgkin Nobel prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin, her superior mind stoked invention, advancing technique of x-rays, biology structures forever amaze Irene Joliot-Curie Elder offspring of Marie-Curie, whose breakthrough would stun a grand jury, induced radiation, her husband and she, bombarded a nucleus, grateful are we Alice Ball Proud nerve ailments sage Alice Ball, whose leprosy tract I duly recall, first African US Hawain school graduate, awarded a master’s for “Method” immaculate