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Born July 21, 1694 • Sweden
Died April 29, 1768 (aged 73) • Stockholm • Sweden
Subjects Of Study antimony • arsenic • bismuth • chemical compound • cobalt • hydrochloric acid • mercury • nitric acid • sulfuric acid • zinc
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Marggraf, engraving
Andreas Sigismund Marggraf
German chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
French chemist
Glauber, engraving
Johann Rudolf Glauber
German-Dutch chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
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Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
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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
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
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
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist

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