Important Inventions/Discoveries of Chemistry for SSC Exam

Inventions/Discoveries	Name of the Scientist/Person
Atom	Neils Bohr
Atomic Number	Mosley
Atomic Physics	Enrico Fermi
Atomic Structure	Bohr and Rutherford
Atomic Theory	Dalton
Bakelite	Leo H Baekeland
Barometer	Evangelista Torricelli
Bomb	Edward Teller
Boyle’s law	Boyle
Breaking up the Nucleus of an atom	Rutherford
Cement	Joseph Aspdin
Centrigrade scale	A. Celsius
Chemical Structure	August Kekule
Cinematograph	Thomas Alva Edison
Cinematography	Thomas Alva Edison
Cosmic Rays	R.A.Millikan
Crescograph	J.C.Bose
Crystal Dynamics	C.V.Raman
Cyclotron	Lawrence
Electrons	J.J.Thomson
Electric Battery	Alessandro Volta
Electric Furnace	William Siemens
Electron	Joseph J. Thomson
Electron Theory	Bohr
Heavy Hydrogen	Urey
Helium Gas	Lockyer
Hydrogen	Cavendish
Laboratory Gas Burner	Robert Wilhelm Von Bunsen
Laughing Gas	Priestley
Law of Electrolysis	Faraday
Law of gases	Gay Lussac
Liquid Oxygen	Dewar
Mercury Thermometer	Fahrenheit
Neon Gas	Ramsay, Travers
Neon-lamp	G. Claude
Neutron	Chadwick
Nuclear Fission	Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi
Nylon	Dr. Wallace H. Carothers
Nylon Plastic	Carothers
Organic Chemistry	Emil Fischer
Oxygen	Priestly
Paints	Shalimar
Periodic Law	Mendeleef
Periodic Table of Elements	Dmitri Mendeleev
Positive Electrons	Anderson
Quantum Theory	Werner Heisenberg
Radioactive Dating	Willard Libby
Radioactivity	Marie Curie
Radio-activity of Uranium	Henry Becquerel
Radium	Madame Curie
Raman effect	C.V.Raman
Rare Gas	Cavandish
Rayon	American Viscose Co.
rubber (vulcanized)	Charles Goodyear
Rubber (waterproof)	Charles Macintosh
Steam Turbine	Parsons
Steel Melting Process	Bessemer
Structure of the Atom	Ernest Rutherford
Theory of the Atom	John Dalton
Thermodynamics	Ludwig Boltzmann
Thermometer	Galileo Gallei
Thermos Flasks	Dewar
Uranium fusion	Oho Hahn
Vaccination	Edward Jenner
Washing Soda	Lablanc
Waterproof Rubber	Charles Macintosh
X – Rays	Roentgen
zerox machine	Chester Carlson