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Born May 4, 1777 • France
Died June 21, 1857 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study ester • hydrogen peroxide • organic phosphorus compound • pigment

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Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Andreas Libavius
German chemist and physician
Georg Wittig
German chemist
Fresenius, engraving after a photograph
Carl Remigius Fresenius
German chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Proust, medallion by Pierre-Jean David
Joseph-Louis Proust
French chemist
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator

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