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Born September 14, 1808 • France
Died April 15, 1853 (aged 44) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Chemical Method”
Subjects Of Study atomic weight • classification • organic compound
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Lothar Meyer
German chemist
William Prout
British chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Rudolf Fittig
German chemist
Julius Stieglitz
American chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Charles Friedel
French chemist
Le Bel
Joseph-Achille Le Bel
French chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist

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