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Born December 29, 1813 • Birmingham • England • (Birthday in 4 days)
Died June 29, 1890 (aged 76) • England
Inventions Parkes process • Parkesine
Subjects Of Study alloy
Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen
British metallurgist
Gustav Tammann
Russian chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Swan, Joseph
Joseph Swan
English physicist and chemist
Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas
British metallurgist
British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist
Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
English chemist and inventor
Frederick Augustus Abel, engraving.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel
British chemist
William Hume-Rothery
English metallurgist
Edward Davy
British inventor
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish inventor
Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian author and scientist
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American chemist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Wilbur Olin Atwater
American chemist
Georges Claude
French engineer
Imre Bródy
Hungarian scientist

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