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Born 1604 • Germany
Died March 10, 1668 (aged 64) • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study chemical synthesis • hydrochloric acid • nitric acid • sodium sulfate • tartar emetic

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Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Otto Paul Hermann Diels
German chemist
Andreas Libavius
German chemist and physician
Carl Graebe
German chemist
Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch
German chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Percy Julian
Percy Julian
American chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
Charles J. Pedersen
American chemist
Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
Donald J. Cram
American chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist

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