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Born July 21, 1810 • Aachen • France
Died January 19, 1878 (aged 67) • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1869)
Subjects Of Study gas

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John Dalton
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
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Sir Humphry Davy
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J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
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Marie Curie
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Pierre Curie
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Pierre-Louis Dulong
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
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Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
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Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
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