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Born February 10, 1840 • Stockholm • Sweden
Died June 18, 1905 (aged 65) • Uppsala • Sweden
Notable Works “The Seasonal Distribution of Atlantic Plankton Organisms”
Subjects Of Study algae • chemical element • dating • diatom • fossil record • holmium • mineral deposit • organic compound • plankton • scandium • thulium
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
Carl Gustaf Mosander
Swedish chemist
Anders Gustav Ekeberg
Swedish chemist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American 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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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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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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