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  • Jöns Jacob Berzelius/Definition
    (1779 - 1848) Swedish chemist.
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  • Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier/Definition
    Eminent late 18th century French chemist.
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  • Richard Zsigmondy/Definition
    Austrian colloid chemist; Nobel Prize 1925.
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  • Marie-Anne Paulze/Definition
    Wife of 18th century chemist Antoine Lavoisier.
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  • Thomas Anderson/Definition
    (1819 – 1874) Scottish chemist remembered for discovering pyridine.
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  • Daniel Rutherford/Definition
    (1749 - 1815) Scottish chemist, best known for the discovery of nitrogen.
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  • Robert Boyle/Definition
    Robert Boyle (1627 – 1691). British chemist and physicist.
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  • Helen Sharman/Definition
    First British person in space (1991); science communicator and chemist (born 1963).
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  • John Davy/Definition
    (1790 – 1868) British chemist most noted for his discovery of phosgene.
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  • Dmitri Mendeleev/Definition
    Russian chemist (1834–1907) who devised the [[periodic table of elements]] in 1869.
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  • John Dalton/Definition
    English pioneer chemist and meteorologist (1766-1844), formulated the first quantitative atomic the
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  • James Dewar/Definition
    (1842 – 1923) Scottish chemist and physicist best-known for his invention of the Dewar flask.
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  • Felix Haurowitz/Definition
    (1 March 1896 - 2 December 1987) Czech-born immunoligist and protein chemist, who pioneered research into antigens.
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  • Isaac Asimov/Definition
    (1920-92) [[United States of America|American]] chemist and prolific author, especially of [[science fiction]].
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  • Willard F. Libby/Definition
    <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>American chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1960 for developing radiocarbon da
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  • Jean-Baptiste Biot/Definition
    ...1774 &ndash; Paris 1862) French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and chemist best known for the Biot-Savart law.
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  • Alfred Nobel/Definition
    ...21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.
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  • Benjamin Rush/Definition
    (1745 - 1813) American physician, educator, chemist, writer, and Founding Father who is known as the "Father of American Psychi
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  • Dalton's law of partial pressure/Definition
    A law first stated by the English chemist John Dalton, governing the pressure of a system containing mutually inert g
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  • Joseph Black/Definition
    (1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxid
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  • Jean-Claude Bradley/Definition
    A [[chemist]] working on [[solubility]]; created the first [[open notebook]], which lai
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  • Marie Curie/Definition
    (1867-1934), Polish-French physicist (Nobel Prize in 1903) and chemist (Nobel Prize in 1911), famous for her work on radioactivity.
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  • Antony Williams/Definition
    A [[chemist]] and [[open science]] advocate; [[Vice President]] for Strategic Developme
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  • Ellen Richards/Definition
    (3 December 1842 – 30 March 1911) American industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 1800s, pioneering the field of home economics.
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  • Fritz Haber/Definition
    German chemist, inventor of the Haber-Bosch process for the production of ammonia, Nobelis
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  • Hans Christian Oersted/Definition
    ...g, August 14, 1777 &ndash; Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) Danish physicist and chemist best known for his discovery of the influence of an electric current on the
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  • Michael Faraday/Definition
    (1791 – 1867) Was an English physicist and chemist whose best known work was on the closely connected phenomena of electricity
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  • Chemist
    A '''chemist''' is a practitioner of the science of [[chemistry]]. Chemists and [[chemic
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  • Clara Immerwahr/Definition
    (1870 &ndash; 1915) [[German]] [[chemist]] and the first female to obtain a [[doctorate]] at the [[University of Bre
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  • John Deutch/Definition
    A [[physical chemistry|physical chemist]], currently Institute Professor at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Techno
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  • Open science/Video
    *An introduction to Open science by chemist [[Matthew Todd]] who uses it to synthesize chemicals that help fight [[schi
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  • Physicist/Related Articles
    {{r|Chemist}}
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  • Sublimation
    ...ng through a liquid phase. The example most likely to be observed by non-[[chemist]]s is the conversion of [[dry ice]] into [[carbon dioxide]] gas. In chemis
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  • Nobel Prize/Definition
    A prestigious annual [[prize]] awarded according to the [[will]] of Swedish [[chemist]] and [[entrepreneur]] [[Alfred Nobel]] in the categories [[Nobel Prize for
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  • Fritz Haber/Bibliography
    *Dietrich Stoltzenberg, ''Fritz Haber: Chemist, Nobel Laureate, German, Jew'', translated from the German by Charles Passa
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  • Daltonism
    ...theory. Through his lifetime John Dalton became a well known and respected chemist and physicist.
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  • Dimitri Mendeleev/Definition
    (1834-1907) [<small>MEN</small>-de-LAY-ev), Russian chemist, discovered that ordering the then (1869) known [[chemical elements]], sixt
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  • William Cookworthy
    ...]], where he lived for the rest of his life, and set up as a manufacturing chemist under the name of Bevans and Cookworthy. In 1735 he married Sarah Berry, w == Chemist and mineralogist ==
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  • Ellen Richards
    '''Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards''' (1842-1911) was a prominent American chemist best known for pioneering domestic science or [[home economics]]. She also
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  • Joseph Black/Bibliography
    ...s were compiled by William Henry (1774-1836), the Manchester physician and chemist, some of whose own lecture notes are also preserved."'' |title=Irish links of the multinational chemist Joseph Black (1728-1799).
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  • Richard Zsigmondy
    ...April 1, 1865 &ndash; [[Göttingen]], September 23, 1929 ) was an Austrian chemist. Together with [[Heinrich Siedentopf]] he invented in 1903 the [[ultramic
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  • Avogadro's number/External Links
    * Alfred Bader and Leonard Parker, ''Joseph Loschmidt, Physicist and Chemist'', Physics Today, vol. '''54'''(3), p. 45 (2001) [http://ptonline.aip.org/
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  • Chemistry/Catalogs/Chemists
    *[[Emil Abderhalden]], (1877&ndash;1950), Swiss chemist *[[Richard Abegg]], (1869&ndash;1910), German chemist
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  • Willard F. Libby
    ...F. Libby''' (December 17, 1908 &ndash; September 8, 1980) was an American chemist. In 1960 he was the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for his work on developin
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  • Scientist/Related Articles
    {{r|Chemist}}
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  • Clara Immerwahr/Related Articles
    {{r|Chemist}}
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  • Helen Sharman
    ...itish]] person to go into [[outer space|space]]. Sharman was a [[chemistry|chemist]] who answered an advertisement to go into space as part of a [[Soviet Unio
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  • Avogadro's law
    ...ro]], but it was not generally accepted until after 1858, when the Italian chemist, [[Stanislao Cannizzaro]] constructed a logical system of chemistry based o
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  • Magnesium
    ...Elemental magnesium was first isolated by Sir [[Humphrey Davy]], a British chemist.
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  • Color Blindness
    The first detailed report on color blindness was written by the British chemist [[John Dalton]], who was himself afflicted with it.
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  • Jöns Jacob Berzelius
    ...versunda]] ([[Sweden]]) 20 Aug 1779 - Stockholm, 7 Aug 1848) was a Swedish chemist and naturalist. He is considered one of the founders of modern chemistry.
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  • Glucose
    ...ranose]], respectively, as shown in the illustration. In 1891, the German chemist [[Emil Fischer]] elucidated the structure of D-glucose.
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  • Periodic table of elements/Bibliography
    ...ignificant contributions to science. However, Dimitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, had predicted their existence years before. In 1871. Mendeleev had publish
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  • Jean-Baptiste Biot
    ...Biot''' (1774-1862) was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and chemist.
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  • Unified atomic mass unit
    ...hysicist's ''amu'' ( = 1/1.000&thinsp;317&thinsp;9 ''u'') and there is the chemist's ''amu'' ( = 1/1.000&thinsp;043 ''u''). Because chemists and physicists no Much earlier, the first standardization of atomic mass was made by the chemist [[John Dalton]] in the early nineteenth century, who introduced the mass of
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  • John Mc Bride
    ...r in [[Westport]]. Originally he studied [[Medicine]] but later became a [[Chemist]]. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and later became involved wit
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  • Marie-Anne Paulze
    ...y 20, 1758&ndash;February 10, 1836) was the wife of the great 18th century chemist [[Antoine Lavoisier]], whom she married on December 16, 1771 when she was n
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  • Hippocratic Oath
    ...armth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.<br/>
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  • Chemical biology
    ...mentally 'bottom-up' approach to understanding biology in keeping with the chemist's natural enthusiasm and appreciation for molecular structure and behaviour
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  • Allotrope
    The German chemist [[Eilhard Mitscherlich]] first discovered allotropy, in sulfur.
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  • Isaac Asimov
    ...at [[Boston University]]. He described himself as a mediocre experimental chemist and academic researcher; his talents did not run to producing the type of f
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  • Technical Alliance
    ...its secretary. The organisations membership also included scientists; the chemist [[Carl l. Alsberg]] and the physicist [[Richard C. Tolman]], some medical d
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  • Progressive Era/Catalogs
    *[[George Washington Carver]], black chemist
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  • Radiocarbon dating
    The process of radiocarbon dating was invented by American chemist [[Willard Libby]] in the 1940s and received a [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|No
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  • Chemical glassware
    ...his is just a brief survey to illustrate the various pieces of glassware a chemist might use on a daily basis.
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  • Discovery of penicillin
    ...distributed the original mould, unsuccessfully trying to get help from any chemist that had enough skill to make a stable form of it for mass production.
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  • Chemical engineering/Citable Version
    ...ant in France in 1837. However, its use was not widespread until a British chemist, [[John Glover]], invented an improved version of the tower, patented in [ ...el's process were unsuccessful. In 1863, some fifty years later, a Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay, successfully applied Fresnel's process using a tall gas abs
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  • Technocracy Inc.
    ...quality''. The use of energy also has similarities to the works of British chemist Professor Fredrick Soddy.
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  • Chemical engineering
    ...ant in France in 1837. However, its use was not widespread until a British chemist, [[John Glover]], invented an improved version of the tower, patented in [ ...el's process were unsuccessful. In 1863, some fifty years later, a Belgian chemist, Ernest Solvay, successfully applied Fresnel's process using a tall gas abs
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  • Neutron activation analysis
    ...esent the results of the analysis, but his subjective interpretation, as a chemist, is worthless; an expert in statistics is required to present a legal inter
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  • Environmental chemistry
    Environmental [[chemist]]s draw on a range of concepts from [[Chemistry|chemistry]] and various env
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  • International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
    ...704jt077r226106/fulltext.pdf Jöns Jacob Berzelius A Guide to the Perplexed Chemist] Jaime Wisniak, Chemical Engineering Department, [[Ben-Gurion University of
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  • Scottish Enlightenment
    ...mist, James Anderson, a lawyer and agronomist, Joseph Black, physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, the first modern geologist.<ref> Denby, op. cit. Repchec
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  • Warren K. Lewis
    ...returned to MIT for a year as a research associate followed by a year as a chemist in a leather [[tannery]]. He then joined the faculty of MIT as an assistant Lewis's early work as a chemist at a leather tannery got him interested in [[colloid|colloidal phenomena]],
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  • University of Manchester/Catalogs/Nobel Prize winners
    * [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]] (awarded 1993), for his fundamental contributions to the e
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  • Prohibition (United States)
    | title = The Chemist's War: The Little-Told Story of How the U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol Du
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  • API gravity
    In 1675, hydrometers were developed by [[Robert Boyle]], a British chemist and physicist. Around 1798, [[Antoine Baumé]], a French scientist, designe
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  • Nitroglycerin
    ...tml Alfred Nobel biography]</ref> visited the Paris laboratory of a famous chemist, Professor T. J. Pelouze. There, he met Ascanio Sobrero who, three years ea
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  • Partial pressure/Citable Version
    [[John Dalton]], an [[English]] chemist, meteorologist and physicist, first propounded his law of partial pressures William Henry, an English chemist, formulated Henry's law in 1803. It stated that:
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  • Partial pressure
    [[John Dalton]], an [[English]] chemist, meteorologist, and physicist, first propounded his law of partial pressure William Henry, an English chemist, formulated Henry's law in 1803. It stated that:
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  • James Hutton
    ...came a prominent member of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]], a friend of the chemist [[Joseph Black]], the political economist [[Adam Smith]], the philosopher a
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  • Electronegativity
    ...ectronegativity scale|Pauling scale]] (named after [[Nobel Prize]] winning Chemist [[Linus Pauling]]) is the first proposed<ref>http://osulibrary.oregonstate.
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  • Alfred Kantorowicz
    ...ch (1940) who had already relocated to UCLA from Istanbul, and theoretical chemist Fritz London who was at Duke University, Kantorowicz was released because
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  • Alan Turing
    }}</ref> Turing was an amateur [[chemistry|chemist]] and it is possible he died from accidentally inhaling [[cyanide]] rather
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  • Physical chemistry
    * [[John Ross (chemist)|John Ross]]
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  • Catalysis
    ...reaction is known a [[Fischer esterification]], named after the [[German]] chemist [[Hermann Emil Fischer]] (1852 - 1919). ...800 by [[Joseph Priestly]] in [[England]] and by the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] chemist [[Martinus van Marum]], both of whom made observations on the [[dehyrogenat
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  • Hans Christian Oersted
    ...ust 14, 1777 &ndash; Copenhagen, March 9, 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist. He is best known for his discovery of the influence of an electric curren
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  • Howard Vincent
    ...sly carried out, led to the mini-scandal over the case of Thomas Titley, a chemist who was suspected of providing abortifacients. Under the incautious hand of
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  • Alexander Fleming
    ...their research.</ref> and he continued, until 1940, to try and interest a chemist skilled enough to further refine usable penicillin. ...uld for twelve years, and continued until 1940 to try to get help from any chemist that had enough skill to make a stable form of it for mass production. Ther
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  • The Unquiet Sleep
    ...ready known to the police, has secured a supply of Mecron and, while their chemist in Turkey attempts to duplicate the drug, has killed at least one man in Lo
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  • Physical system
    ...separate a physical system from the surroundings. For instance, a physical chemist studying a system consisting of
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  • Atomic number
    ...was known. The arrangement of atoms by mass was thought of by the Russian chemist [[Dimitri Mendeleev|Dmitri Mendeléev]], who discovered that chemically sim
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  • Oxidation-reduction
    As modern chemistry began to emerge, with the work of the French chemist, [[Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier]] (1743-1794), chemists viewed '''oxidation''' Prior to Lavoisier, the chemist, [[Georg Ernst Stahl]] (1660-1734), taught that oxidation, as it came to be
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  • Memory of water
    ...tor of ''Nature'', John Maddox, American scientific fraud investigator and chemist Walter Stewart, and "professional [[pseudoscience]] debunker" [[James Randi ...thdrawn, and his lab was eventually closed. According to Lionel Milgrom, a chemist and homoeopath who corresponded with Benveniste, "The knocks that he took m
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  • Hydrodesulfurization
    ...e.g., ([[ethylene]], [[benzene]]) was discovered by the [[France|French]] chemist, [[Paul Sabatier]].<ref>Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (C.R.Aca Soon after Sabatier's work, a [[Germany|German]] chemist, Wilhelm Normann, found that catalytic hydrogenation could be used to conve
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  • Matter (chemistry)
    A minimal account of matter from the chemist´s classical perspective requires discussion of the meanings of the terms ' ...it or unit of matter, to a tangible sample of matter &mdash; matter from a chemist's perspective.
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  • Hydrodesulfurization/Citable Version
    ...e.g., ([[ethylene]], [[benzene]]) was discovered by the [[France|French]] chemist, [[Paul Sabatier]].<ref>C.R.Acad.Sci. 1897, 132, 210</ref><ref>C.R.Acad.Sci Soon after Sabatier's work, a [[Germany|German]] chemist, Wilhelm Normann, found that catalytic hydrogenation could be used to conve
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  • Robert Boyle
    ...Ireland, January 25, 1627 &ndash; London, December 30, 1691) was a British chemist and physicist, mainly known for [[Ideal gas law|Boyle's law]] (1662) that s ...the first to describe [[hydrogen]] gas. Although he was probably the first chemist in the modern sense of the word, he still believed, as the alchemists did,
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  • Fermentation (biochemistry)
    [[France|French]] chemist [[Louis Pasteur]] was the first ''zymologist'', when in 1857 he connected y
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  • Gas
    ...ord "gas" was apparently proposed by the 17th century [[Flanders|Flemish]] chemist [[Jan Baptist van Helmont]], as a phonetic spelling of his [[Dutch language
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