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Born August 20, 1779 • near Linköping • Sweden
Died August 7, 1848 (aged 68) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1836)
Subjects Of Study atomic weight • catalysis • cerium • chemical analysis • chemical symbol • isomerism • selenium • silicon • thorium • titanium • zirconium

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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
German chemist
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist
Adams, Roger
Roger Adams
American chemist
Jean-Charles Galissard de Marignac
Swiss chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
William Prout
British chemist
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
Charles Hatchett
British chemist

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