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Born March 12, 1832 • Strasbourg • France
Died April 20, 1899 (aged 67) • Montauban • France
Subjects Of Study Friedel-Crafts reaction
Carl Shipp Marvel
American chemist
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig
American chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Le Bel
Joseph-Achille Le Bel
French chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Ralph F. Hirschmann
American chemist
Maud Leonora Menten
Maud Leonora Menten
Canadian biochemist and organic chemist
Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist
Stephen L. Buchwald
Stephen L. Buchwald
American chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist

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