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Born 1604 • Germany
Died March 10, 1668 (aged 64) • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study chemical synthesis • hydrochloric acid • nitric acid • sodium sulfate • tartar emetic

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Glauber, engraving
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Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
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Peter Armbruster
German physicist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
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Otto Paul Hermann Diels
German chemist
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Andreas Libavius
German chemist and physician
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Carl Graebe
German chemist
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Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch
German chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Percy Julian
Percy Julian
American chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
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Charles J. Pedersen
American chemist
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Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
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Donald J. Cram
American chemist
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Paul Sabatier
French chemist
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Franz Sondheimer
German-born scientist
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist

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