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Michel-Eugène Chevreul: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born August 31, 1786 • Angers • France
Died April 9, 1889 (aged 102) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1857)
Subjects Of Study carboxylic acid • fatty acid • soap

Photos

Michel-Eugène Chevreul, c. 1860
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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French 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
ean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Henri-Victor Regnault
Henri-Victor Regnault
French chemist and physicist
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
French chemist
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
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Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist

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