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Born September 8, 1848 • Berlin • Germany
Died August 8, 1897 (aged 48) • Heidelberg • Germany
Subjects Of Study aliphatic compound • bromine • density • dissociation • inorganic compound • iodine • oxime • stereoisomerism • thiophene • vapour

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Antoine-Jérôme Balard
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Joseph Loschmidt
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August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
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Louis Pasteur
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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
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Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
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Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
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German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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ean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
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Sir John Cornforth
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John Ulric Nef
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Charles-Adolphe Wurtz
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Roger Adams
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Jean-Charles Galissard de Marignac
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Nevil Vincent Sidgwick
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Joseph-Achille Le Bel
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Justus von Liebig
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