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Born February 2, 1802 • Paris • France
Died May 12, 1887 (aged 85) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1878)
Subjects Of Study nitrogen cycle

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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Henri-Victor Regnault
Henri-Victor Regnault
French chemist and physicist
Wurtz
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Stephen Moulton Babcock
Stephen Moulton Babcock
American chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist

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