Ben B. Chastain
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LOCATION: Birmingham, AL,
Professor of Chemistry, Samford University, Birmingham, Ala.
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Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas was a French chemist who pioneered in organic chemistry, particularly organic analysis. Dumas’s father was the town clerk, and Dumas attended the local school. Although briefly apprenticed to an apothecary, in 1816 Dumas traveled to Geneva where he studied pharmacy,…
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