Nicholas W. Fisher
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LOCATION: Aberdeen, Scotland,
Lecturer in Cultural History, University of Aberdeen, Scot. Author of Making an Exhibition of Themselves: The Victorians in 1851.
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Auguste Laurent was a French chemist who helped lay the foundations of organic chemistry. After conventional classical schooling, Laurent earned an undergraduate degree in engineering from the prestigious École des Mines in Paris. From 1830 he was employed as a laboratory assistant by Jean-Baptiste…
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