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Also Known As Hans Peter Jörgen Julius Thomsen
Born February 16, 1826 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died February 13, 1909 (aged 82) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study heat of reaction
Morten P. Meldal
Morten P. Meldal
Danish chemist
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Jens C. Skou
Danish biophysicist
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Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and 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
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
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
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
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist

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