SCI Introduction - Flipbook - Page 4
SCI’s network has a long tradition of including Prominent
Scientists & Inventors
• Sir William Ramsay
F.R.S
President 1903
• Nobel prize Chemistry 1904 – discovery of noble gases
• Lord Todd
F.R.S.
President 1981
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1957 - elucidated the structure of B12
• Dr Leo Baekeland
• Developed photographic paper & sold rights to George Eastman for $1M
• Developed Bakelite – first synthetic plastic
• Richard Seligman
• Inventor of plate heat exchanger (modern methods of pasteurisation)