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Born February 10, 1840 • Stockholm • Sweden
Died June 18, 1905 (aged 65) • Uppsala • Sweden
Notable Works “The Seasonal Distribution of Atlantic Plankton Organisms”
Subjects Of Study algae • chemical element • dating • diatom • fossil record • holmium • mineral deposit • organic compound • plankton • scandium • thulium
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
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Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
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Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist
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Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
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Carl Gustaf Mosander
Swedish chemist
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Anders Gustav Ekeberg
Swedish chemist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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
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
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
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Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist

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