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Also Known As François-Auguste-Victor Grignard
Born May 6, 1871 • Cherbourg-en-Cotentin • France
Died December 13, 1935 (aged 64) • Lyon • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1912)
Subjects Of Study Grignard reaction • Grignard reagent

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Marie Curie
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Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
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Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
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Frederick Sanger
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Walther Nernst
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Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
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Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
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Ziegler
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