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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
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Born December 13, 1780 • Germany
Died March 24, 1849 (aged 68) • Germany • Jena
Subjects Of Study atomic weight • calcium • catalysis • chemical element • furfural • magnesium • separation and purification • triad
Lothar Meyer
German chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard
Louis Bernard Guyton de Morveau
French chemist and educator
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman
Canadian-American scientist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Herbert H. Dow
American chemist
Frank Harold Spedding
American chemist
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist
William Prout
British chemist
Richard F. Heck, 2010.
Richard F. Heck
American chemist
Moissan, 1906
Henri Moissan
French chemist

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