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Marie Curie
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researched radioactivity and discovered polonium and radium
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Antoine Lavoisier
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"father of modern chemistry", discovered oxygen's role in combustion, chemical nomenclature reform, discovered hydrogen and oxygen, listed elements and predicted silicon, first to say sulfur was an element
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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created periodic table of elements, periodic law, and used them to predict properties of elements and predict elements themselves
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John Dalton
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law of partial pressures, atomic theory, law of multiple proportions, daltonism (color blindness)
royal medal 1826 |
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Linus Pauling
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founded quantum chemistry and molecular biology
only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes - chemistry in 1954 and peace in 1962 |
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Robert Boyle
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founder of modern chemistry, Boyles Law PV=k
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Alfred Nobel
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invented dynamite, big iron and steel manufacturer, used fortune to create Nobel prizes, nobelium
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Michael Faraday
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electromagnetic fields, electrolysis, electromagnetic induction, dimagnetism, early insight into practical uses of electricity
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Louis Pasteur
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mostly germ theory, against spontaneous reproduction, in chemistry, noticed asymmetry is crystals and racemization
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