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Born July 25, 1931 • Dachau • Germany
Died June 26, 2024 (aged 92) • Darmstadt • Germany
Subjects Of Study bohrium • chemical synthesis • copernicium • darmstadtium • hassium • meitnerium • roentgenium • superheavy element
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Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Marggraf, engraving
Andreas Sigismund Marggraf
German chemist
Otto Paul Hermann Diels
German chemist
Grünberg, Peter
Peter Grünberg
German scientist
Fritz Strassmann
German chemist
Andreas Libavius
German chemist and physician
Carl Graebe
German chemist
Glauber, engraving
Johann Rudolf Glauber
German-Dutch 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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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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