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Born January 11, 1906 • Baden • Switzerland
Died April 29, 2008 (aged 102) • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study psychedelic drug

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Jean-Charles Galissard de Marignac
Swiss chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
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
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Tsien, Roger Y.
Roger Y. Tsien
American chemist
Daniel Shechtman
Daniel Shechtman
Israeli chemist
Martin Chalfie
American chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Shimomura, Osamu
Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist

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