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Born March 31, 1831 • Kirkintilloch • Scotland
Died March 11, 1892 (aged 60) • Kirkintilloch • Scotland
Subjects Of Study carbon • chemical bonding • structural formula • valence
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Austrian chemist
August Kekule von Stradonitz
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist
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John Ulric Nef
American chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
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Walter Kohn
American physicist
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Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist
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Robert Curl
American chemist
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William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
American chemist and physicist
Edward Frankland
Sir Edward Frankland
British scientist
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Aleksandr Butlerov
Russian chemist
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Nevil Vincent Sidgwick
British chemist
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Julius Stieglitz
American chemist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
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Richard Henderson
British biologist
Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham
Scottish chemist
Macintosh, Charles
Charles Macintosh
Scottish chemist
Leslie, Sir John
Sir John Leslie
Scottish physicist and mathematician

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