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Also Known As Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Born September 27, 1818 • Germany
Died November 25, 1884 (aged 66) • Leipzig • Germany
Subjects Of Study chemical synthesis • organic compound • substitution reaction

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Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Robert Robinson.
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Otto Paul Hermann Diels
German chemist
Andreas Libavius
German chemist and physician
Carl Graebe
German chemist
Rudolf Fittig
German chemist
Glauber, engraving
Johann Rudolf Glauber
German-Dutch chemist
Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch
German chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
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

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