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Born May 25, 1901 • Leipzig • Germany
Died December 10, 1977 (aged 76) • Göttingen • Germany
Subjects Of Study chemical compound • impurity defect • solid
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
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Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
German chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
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
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
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Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Ahmed Zewail, wearing a suit and purple tie, speaks at a podium against a dark background at the UNESCO and L'Oreal Awards for Women and Science.
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
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Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
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William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist

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