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Born September 26, 1754 • Angers • France
Died July 5, 1826 (aged 71) • Angers • France
Subjects Of Study law of definite proportions • quantitative chemical analysis

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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
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John Dalton
John Dalton
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Fresenius, engraving after a photograph
Carl Remigius Fresenius
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Irène Joliot-Curie
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
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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
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Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
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Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
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Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
French chemist
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator
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Henry-Louis Le Chatelier
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ean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
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Yves Chauvin
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