Friedrich Wöhler: Quick Facts


Facts

Born July 31, 1800 • Germany
Died September 23, 1882 (aged 82) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1872)
Subjects Of Study aluminum • chemical synthesis • organic compound • urea • process metallurgy

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Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
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Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
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Peter Armbruster
German physicist
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Hans Goldschmidt
German chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
Hall, Charles Martin
Charles Martin Hall
American chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
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William Prout
British chemist
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Charles Hatchett
British chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
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Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist