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Charles Gerhardt
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Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
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Robert Burns Woodward
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German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
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Sir Robert Robinson
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