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Born February 10, 1846 • New York City • New York
Died March 4, 1927 (aged 81) • Carmel • California
Subjects Of Study saccharin
Silliman, Benjamin
Benjamin Silliman
American geologist and chemist [1779-1864]
Wolfgang Ostwald
German chemist
Sol Tax
American anthropologist
George Alfred Leon Sarton
American scholar
Oscar Sonneck
American musicologist, librarian, and editor
Dumas Malone
American historian, editor, and the author
Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner
George Henry Falkiner Nuttall
British biologist
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
Joseph Liouville
French mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Meinecke, 1942
Friedrich Meinecke
German historian
Times New Roman
Stanley Morison
English typographer
Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore
British theologian
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
Mittag-Leffler
Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
Swedish mathematician
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Spanish scholar
Dom Joseph Pothier
French composer

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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