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Born January 2, 1765 • London • England
Died March 10, 1847 (aged 82) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1798)
Subjects Of Study niobium
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
William Prout
British chemist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
British physicist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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