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Also Known As Andreas Libau
Born c.1540 • Halle • Germany
Died July 25, 1616 • Coburg • Germany
Notable Works “Alchymia”
Subjects Of Study chemical synthesis
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Otto Paul Hermann Diels
German chemist
Carl Graebe
German chemist
Glauber, engraving
Johann Rudolf Glauber
German-Dutch chemist
Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch
German chemist
Fresenius, engraving after a photograph
Carl Remigius Fresenius
German chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Muslim alchemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Percy Julian
Percy Julian
American chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
Charles J. Pedersen
American chemist
Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
Donald J. Cram
American chemist

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