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Born March 20, 1735 • Sweden
Died July 8, 1784 (aged 49) • Sweden
Notable Works “A Dissertation on Elective Attractions” • “De Analysi Aquarum”
Subjects Of Study chemical analysis • crystal • mineral water • northern lights • rainbow • tourmaline

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Torbern Bergman, detail of an oil painting by Per Krafft; in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
ean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
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Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
American chemist
Wallach
Otto Wallach
German chemist
Jaroslav Heyrovský.
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Czech chemist
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Fritz Pregl
Austrian chemist
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Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist
Adams, Roger
Roger Adams
American chemist
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist
Tomas Lindahl, 2015
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
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Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
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Theodor H.E. Svedberg
Swedish chemist
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Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn
Swedish physicist
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Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
Anders Celsius, detail from a drawing by an unknown artist, 18th century.
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer

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