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Also Known As Charles-Frédéric Gerhardt
Born August 21, 1816 • Strasbourg • France
Died August 19, 1856 (aged 39) • Strasbourg • France
Subjects Of Study acid • acid anhydride • carboxylic acid • chemical equation • classification • homologous series • organic compound

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Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Rudolf Fittig
German chemist
Julius Stieglitz
American chemist
Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Charles Friedel
French chemist
Le Bel
Joseph-Achille Le Bel
French chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American 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
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Ralph F. Hirschmann
American chemist
Maud Leonora Menten
Maud Leonora Menten
Canadian biochemist and organic chemist

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