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Born August 7, 1802 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died November 30, 1850 (aged 48) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study Hess’s law of heat summation
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli president and scientist
Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff
Russian-American chemist
Gustav Tammann
Russian chemist
Phoebus Levene
American chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov
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Butlerov, portrait by an unknown artist
Aleksandr Butlerov
Russian chemist
Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev
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Moses Gomberg
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Karl Karlovich Klaus
Russian chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist
Stanley Miller
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
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