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Born July 26, 1863 • Cēsis • Latvia
Died January 24, 1957 (aged 93) • Germany
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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
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Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
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Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
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