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Born January 6, 1795 • Paris • France
Died May 12, 1871 (aged 76) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study cellulose
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American chemist
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland
American chemist
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Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
Painting by Albert Edelfelt showing Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, holding a glass flask and examining it intently, surrounded by scientific equipment on a workbench.
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
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
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
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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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Henry-Louis Le Chatelier
French chemist
ean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist

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