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Born April 16, 1838 • Belgium
Died May 26, 1922 (aged 84) • Brussels • Belgium
Subjects Of Study ammonia-soda process
Ludwig Mond
British chemist
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Jan Baptista van Helmont
Belgian scientist
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
Julius Arthur Nieuwland
American chemist
Stanley Miller
American biochemist
Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist
Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist

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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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