April 10
Posted in White History on Apr 10th, 2012
1925 The Great Gatsby, a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published. 1917 American organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is best known for his syntheses of complex organic substances, including quinine (the well-known antimalarial), the steroids cholesterol and cortisone, and vitamin B12. 1583 Dutch philosopher [...]