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Born January 4, 1737 • Dijon • France
Died January 2, 1816 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Méthode de nomenclature chimique”
Subjects Of Study chemical compound • chemical element

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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
French chemist
Vauquelin, lithograph by François-Séraphin Delpech
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
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Edmond Frémy
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
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Joseph Loschmidt
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Lothar Meyer
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Per Teodor Cleve
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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
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Frederick Soddy
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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Georg Brandt
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Carl Wagner
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Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist

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