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Born July 31, 1800 • Germany
Died September 23, 1882 (aged 82) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1872)
Subjects Of Study aluminum • chemical synthesis • organic compound • urea • process metallurgy

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Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
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Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Hans Goldschmidt
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
Hall, Charles Martin
Charles Martin Hall
American chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
William Prout
British chemist
Charles Hatchett
British chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist

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