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Also Known As Ferdinand-Frédéric-Henri Moissan
Born September 28, 1852 • Paris • France
Died February 20, 1907 (aged 54) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1906)
Subjects Of Study acetylene • fluorine • separation and purification • arc furnace

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Moissan, 1906
Nobel Prize: chemical elements discovered by winners
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Tsien, Roger Y.
Roger Y. Tsien
American chemist
Daniel Shechtman
Daniel Shechtman
Israeli chemist
Martin Chalfie
American chemist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Yves Chauvin
French chemist
Sauvage, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
Victor Grignard.
Victor Grignard
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist

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