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Born January 11, 1906 • Baden • Switzerland
Died April 29, 2008 (aged 102) • Switzerland
Subjects Of Study psychedelic drug

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Jean-Charles Galissard de Marignac
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
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Timothy Leary
American psychologist and author
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Otto Hahn
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Peter Armbruster
German physicist
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Roger Y. Tsien
American chemist
Daniel Shechtman
Daniel Shechtman
Israeli chemist
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Martin Chalfie
American chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
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Sir William Crookes
British chemist
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Osamu Shimomura
Japanese-born chemist

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