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Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
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Born October 30, 1817 • Hanau • Germany
Died February 20, 1892 (aged 74) • Heidelberg • Germany
Notable Works “Geschichte der Chemie”
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Carl Wagner
German chemist and metallurgist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Odd Hassel
Norwegian chemist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
William Francis Giauque
American chemist

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