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Born January 4, 1737 • Dijon • France
Died January 2, 1816 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Méthode de nomenclature chimique”
Subjects Of Study chemical compound • chemical element

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Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
Edmond Frémy
French chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Lothar Meyer
German chemist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
German chemist
Frederick Soddy
British chemist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist
Carl Wagner
German chemist and metallurgist
Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist

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