Famous Chemists

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    Carl Wilhelm Scheele

    Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born in sweden. He discovered oxygen and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine
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    John Dalton

    A British chemist . He revealed the concept of Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures. He also was the first scientist to explain the behavior of atoms in terms of the measurement of weight.
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    Robert Bunsen

    a German chemist. He invented the Bunsen burner.He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium and rubidium
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    Louis Pasteur

    A French Biochemist. He was the first man to make a vaccine to Rabies and Anthrax. He also made a discovery into the Puerperal Fever
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    Alfred Nobel

    Alfred Nobel was born in sweden.Nobel developed a safer explosive called dynamite. He also used his vast fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes.
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    Dmitri Mendeleyev

    A Russian chemist. He developed the periodic classification of the elements. In his version of the periodic table, he left gaps in places where he believed unknown elements would fit in and predicted the likely properties of three of the potential elements. The proof of many of his predictions within his lifetime brought fame to Mendeleyev as the founder of the periodic law.
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    Friedrich Konrad Beilstein

    A German-Russian Chemist. He discovered relations with Chlorotoluene and Benzyl Chloride.
    He also invented the Handbook of Organic Chemistry.
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    Ernest Solvay

    A Belgian Chemist.He invented the Ammonia-Soda Process
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    Paul De Boisbaudran

    A French Chemist. He discovered many elements such as; Gallium, Samarium and Dysprosium
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    Julius Wilbrand

    A German Chemist. He invented / discovered TNT
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    Stephen moulton babcock

    A American Agricultural Chemist.He is famous for the single- grain experiment, which lead to nutritional science becoming a field of science.
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    Marie Curie

    A polish chemist.Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields . Curie's efforts, with her husband, Pierre Curie, led to the discovery of polonium and radium
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    Otto Hahn

    A German chemist. Otto Hahn and radiochemist Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944.
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    Kazimierz Fajans

    A Polish-American Chemist. He looked deeply into science in radioactive rows
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    Izaak Kolthoff

    A Dutch-American Chemist.Father of Analytical Chemistry
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    William Standish Knowles

    A American Chemist.Shared Nobel Prize for asymmetric Synthesis and Hydrogenation reactions
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    John Fenn

    John won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. He won it for Analytical Chemistry. He also contributed in developing electrospray ionization.
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    Sir Derek Harold

    A British organic chemist. He published comprehensive volumes of his work, titled Reason and Imagination: Reflections on Research in Organic Chemistry. As well as for his work on conformation, his name is remembered in a number of reactions in organic chemistry such as the Barton reaction, the Barton decarboxylation, and the Barton-McCombie deoxygenation.
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    Paul Lauterbur

    A American Chemist. He invented the MRI scanner, and shared in the 2003 Physiology Nobel prize.
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    Richard R. Ernst

    He is currently 79 years old and is still alive now. He won the 1991 Nobel Prize for helping with the development of Fourier Transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy