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Born December 23, 1722 • Sweden
Died August 19, 1765 (aged 42) • Sweden
Subjects Of Study classification • metal • mineral • nickel
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Georgius Agricola.
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Spanish chemist and mineralogist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
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Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
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Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist
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Carl Gustaf Mosander
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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
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
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Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
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Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
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William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
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