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Born April 7, 1817 • Italy
Died August 13, 1881 (aged 64) • Italy
Notable Works “Enciclopedia di chimica scientifica e industriale”
Subjects Of Study colloid
Giulio Natta.
Giulio Natta
Italian chemist
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Theodor H.E. Svedberg
Swedish chemist
Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham
Scottish chemist
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Frederick George Donnan
British chemist
Zsigmondy, Richard
Richard Zsigmondy
German chemist
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Wolfgang Ostwald
German chemist
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Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
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Vincenzo Dandolo
Italian chemist and statesman
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Stanley Miller
American biochemist
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Henry Enfield Roscoe
English 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
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
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
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
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
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist

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