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Born May 6, 1635 • Speyer
Died October 1682 or October 1685 (aged 47) • England
Notable Works “Subterranean Physics”
Subjects Of Study combustion

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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Georg Ernst Stahl
German chemist and physician
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Ziegler
Karl Ziegler
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Ida Noddack
Ida Noddack
German chemist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Carl Dietrich Harries
German chemist
Hell, Stefan
Stefan Hell
Romanian-born German chemist
Hermann Staudinger.
Hermann Staudinger
German chemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist

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