Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one
word in each space.
CHEMISTS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO MODERN CHEMISTRY
Dmitri Mendeleev is highly regarded (1)
his formation of the PeriodicTable
(2)
is core to the study of the elements. He is sometimes referred (3)
as
the father of the periodic table.
Similarly, Antoine Lavoisier (4).
greatly regarded for his discovery
of
(5)
role of oxygen in combustion. He acknowledged and named hydrogen (1783)
and oxygen (1778) and refuted the phlogiston theory. Louis Pasteur developed a
vaccination (6)
rabies and anthrax and came up (7)
pasteurization
while Linus Pauling (8)
one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry
and molecular biology. Marie Curie is regarded for her work (9)
radioactivity
and the discovery of radium and polonium.
