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Born July 14, 1800 • Alès • France
Died April 10, 1884 (aged 83) • Cannes • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1843)
Subjects Of Study Dumas method • alcohol • anthracene • atomic weight • camphor • chemical analysis • functional group • goitre • halogen • homologous series • iodine • methanol • substitution reaction • therapeutics

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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Henry Edward Armstrong
British chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Tadeus Reichstein
Swiss chemist
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, oil painting by E. Hader, 1886
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
German chemist
William Prout
British chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist
Charles Friedel
French chemist
Le Bel
Joseph-Achille Le Bel
French chemist

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