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Born July 4, 1906 • Schenectady • New York
Died July 25, 1993 (aged 87) • Schenectady • New York
Subjects Of Study cloud seeding • precipitation
Gilbert N. Lewis
American chemist
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Tor Harold Percival Bergeron
Scandinavian meteorologist
Stanley Miller
American biochemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Elias James Corey
American chemist
Tetsuya Fujita
Japanese-American meteorologist
Stoddart, J. Fraser
J. Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist
Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Thomas Midgley, Jr.
American chemical engineer

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