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Also Known As Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Born December 9, 1742 • Stralsund • Germany
Died May 21, 1786 (aged 43) • Sweden
Subjects Of Study acid • arsine • barium oxide • chemical compound • chlorine • glycerin • hydrogen sulfide • inorganic compound • organic compound • oxygen • pigment

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German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
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Jean-Charles Galissard de Marignac
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Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
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Georg Brandt
Swedish 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
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
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Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
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Peter Jacob Hjelm
Swedish chemist
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Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
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Carl Gustaf Mosander
Swedish chemist
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Anders Gustav Ekeberg
Swedish chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
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Auguste Laurent
French chemist

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