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Born April 10, 1766 • Scotland
Died November 3, 1832 (aged 66) • Scotland
Subjects Of Study heat • ice

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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Thomas Graham, engraving by C. Cook after a photograph
Thomas Graham
Scottish chemist
James David Forbes
Scottish physicist
Balfour Stewart
British meteorologist and geophysicist
Macintosh, Charles
Charles Macintosh
Scottish chemist
Archibald Scott Couper
Scottish chemist
Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist
Stanley Miller
American biochemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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