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Born September 5, 1766 or September 6, 1766 • England
Died July 27, 1844 • Manchester • England
Founder British Science Association
Notable Works “Meteorological Observations and Essays” • “New System of Chemical Philosophy”
Subjects Of Study Charles’s law • Dalton’s law • atmosphere • atomic theory • atomic weight • butene • chemical symbol • colour blindness • ethyl ether • gas • law of definite proportions • law of multiple proportions • northern lights • rain

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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Jan Baptista van Helmont
Belgian scientist
Henri-Victor Regnault
Henri-Victor Regnault
French chemist and physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
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Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
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Sir John Sealy Townsend
Irish physicist
Swan, Joseph
Joseph Swan
English physicist and chemist
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William Prout
British chemist
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British chemist and physicist
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George Johnstone Stoney
Irish physicist
Thomas Andrews.
Thomas Andrews
Irish chemist and physicist

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