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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was a friar living in 13th century England, who, hundreds of years after his death became popularly known as a powerful sorcerer. He is most widely known amon... |
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Robert Boyle, Natural Philosopher
The Honourable Robert Boyle was an Irish natural philosopher, noted for his work in physics and chemistry. He was an alchemist; and believing the transmutation of metals... |
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Joseph Priestley, Co-discovery of Oxygen
Joseph Priestley was an English chemist, philosopher, dissenting clergyman, and educator. He is known for his investigations of carbon dioxide and the co-discovery (with... |
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Lavoisier, Father of Modern Chemistry
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was, amongst others, a chemist, economist, and public servant. He is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. Lavois... |
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John Dalton, First Useful Atomic Theory
John Dalton developed the first useful atomic theory of matter around 1803. In the course of his studies on meteorology, Dalton concluded that evaporated water exists in... |
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Du Pont, Founder DuPont Company - 1802
Among the young men whom Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier deeply influenced was Eleuthère Irénée du Pont (1771–1834), the founder of the DuPont Company. His father, Pierre Samue... |
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Amedeo Avogadro, Italian Chemist
In 1811 Amedeo Avogadro hypothesized that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules. From this hypothesis it followed... |
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Michael Faraday, Producing Electricity
Faraday's research into electricity and electrolysis was guided by the belief that electricity is only one of the many manifestations of the unified forces of nature, whi... |
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Buys Ballot, Chemist and Meteorologist
Buys Ballot was a Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named.
Buys Ballot tested the Doppler effect for sound wav... |
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Alfred Nobel, Inventor of Dynamite
Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. His family was descended from Olof Rudbeck, the best-known technical genius of Sweden's 17th century era as a great... |
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Mendeleev, Creator Table of Elements
Dimitri Mendeleev, was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. Unlike other contributors to... |
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Madame Curie, Discovery of Radioactivity
Marie Sklodowska Curie opened up the science of radioactivity. She is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium and as the first person... |
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Rutherford, Father of Nuclear Physics
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS, widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a chemist (B.Sc. in chemistry and geology 1894, Canterbury College... |
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Albert Hofmann, Created LSD, 1938
Albert Hofmann was a Swiss scientist best known for having been the first to synthesize, ingest and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).... |
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