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Born August 19, 1745 • Sweden
Died December 8, 1818 (aged 73) • Stockholm • Sweden
Subjects Of Study bone • chemical analysis • copper • manganese • phosphoric acid • phosphorus • smelting
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist
Fausto Elhuyar
Spanish chemist and mineralogist
Hennig Brand
German chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Torbern Bergman, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft; in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
Torbern Olof Bergman
Swedish chemist and naturalist
Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist
Carl Gustaf Mosander
Swedish chemist
Anders Gustav Ekeberg
Swedish chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist

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