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Also Known As Julius Lothar Meyer
Born August 19, 1830 • Germany
Died April 11, 1895 (aged 64) • Tübingen • Germany
Notable Works “Die Modernen Theorien der Chemie”
Subjects Of Study atomic weight • periodic table
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
German chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
William Prout
British chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Frederick Soddy
British chemist
Theodore William Richards
American chemist
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist
Jean-Charles Galissard de Marignac
Swiss chemist
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist

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