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Born April 18, 1838 • Cognac • France
Died May 28, 1912 (aged 74) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study chemical analysis • dysprosium • gallium • periodic table • samarium • spectroscopy
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
French chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
Balard
Antoine-Jérôme Balard
French chemist
Bernard Courtois
French chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Albert Hofmann
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist

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