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Hilaire Bernigaud, count de Chardonnet
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Also Known As Hillaire Bernigaud, comte de Chardonnet
Born May 1, 1839 • Besançon • France
Died March 12, 1924 (aged 84) • Paris • France
Inventions Chardonnet rayon
Paul Vieille
French chemist
Thaddeus Fairbanks
American inventor
Seth Boyden
American inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland
American chemist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Georges Claude
French engineer
Paul-Louis-Toussaint Héroult
French scientist
Philippe Lebon
French scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
George Eastman, 1926.
George Eastman
American inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Herman Hollerith
American inventor
Hazel Bishop
American chemist and businesswoman
Herbert H. Dow
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