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Born August 7, 1802 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died November 30, 1850 (aged 48) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study Hess’s law of heat summation
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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Israeli president and scientist
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Russian chemist
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Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev
Russian chemist
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Moses Gomberg
American chemist
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Karl Karlovich Klaus
Russian chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
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Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist
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Stanley Miller
American biochemist
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Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
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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

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