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Born October 11, 1755 • Logroño • Spain
Died February 6, 1833 (aged 77) • Madrid • Spain
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
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Sir Humphry Davy
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Langmuir, Irving
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Glenn T. Seaborg
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German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
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Albert Hofmann
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Norman L. Bowen
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Peter Armbruster
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Tsien, Roger Y.
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Daniel Shechtman
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