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Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
French chemist
Stanley Miller
American biochemist
Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian scientist
Claude-Louis Berthollet.
Claude-Louis Berthollet
French chemist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
American agricultural chemist
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
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Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
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Alfred Nobel
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