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Born December 20, 1805 • Glasgow • Scotland
Died September 11, 1869 (aged 63) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1862)
Subjects Of Study Graham’s law of diffusion • colloid • dialysis

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Theodor H.E. Svedberg
Swedish chemist
Frederick George Donnan
British chemist
Zsigmondy, Richard
Richard Zsigmondy
German chemist
Francesco Selmi
Italian chemist
Wolfgang Ostwald
German chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist

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