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Wilhelm Körner
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Born April 20, 1839 • Kassel • Germany • (Born on this day)
Died March 28, 1925 (aged 85) • Milan • Italy
Subjects Of Study aromatic compound • asparagine • benzene ring • pyridine
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Rudolf Fittig
German chemist
Henry Edward Armstrong
British chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, oil painting by E. Hader, 1886
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
German chemist
Adolf Windaus
German chemist
Carl Graebe
German chemist
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
Russian chemist
Ludwig Knorr
German chemist
Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch
German chemist
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
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Ralph F. Hirschmann
American chemist

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