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Born August 7, 1802 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died November 30, 1850 (aged 48) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study Hess’s law of heat summation
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Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
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Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli president and scientist
Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff
Russian-American chemist
Gustav Tammann
Russian chemist
Phoebus Levene
American chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Vladimir Vasilyevich Markovnikov
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Butlerov, portrait by an unknown artist
Aleksandr Butlerov
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Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev
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Moses Gomberg
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Karl Karlovich Klaus
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Irène Joliot-Curie
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay
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Henry Enfield Roscoe
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Stanley Miller
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
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