Thirteen building blocks in a science that may be the foundation of the modern world:
-Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen
-John Dalton's atomic theory
-Avogadro's Law
-Friedrich Woehler's synthesis of urea
-Friedrich Kekule's studies of molecular structure
-Dmitry Mendeleyev's Periodic Table
-Humphry Davy's electrolysis
-J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron
-Niels Bohr's model of atomic structure
-Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunson's electromagnetic spectroscopy
-Marie Curie's isolation of radioactive materials
-John Wesley Hyatt and Leo Baekeland's invention of plastics
-The discovery of fullerenes
