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Born October 11, 1755 • Logroño • Spain
Died February 6, 1833 (aged 77) • Madrid • Spain
Subjects Of Study tungsten
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
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Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
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Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
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William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
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William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
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German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann
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Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Tsien, Roger Y.
Roger Y. Tsien
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Daniel Shechtman
Daniel Shechtman
Israeli chemist
Martin Chalfie
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Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
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