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Born August 22, 1868 • Jamestown • New York
Died January 9, 1958 (aged 89) • Schenectady • New York
Founder General Electric
Subjects Of Study electricity • lamp
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Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
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Stanley Miller
American biochemist
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
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Gilbert N. Lewis
American chemist
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket scientist and chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
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Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
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Paul J. Flory
American chemist
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Willard Frank Libby
American chemist
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan
American financier
Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey
American chemist
Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
British-American chemist

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