Henri Moissan
1852 CE–1907 CE · Paris
Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his other contributions, Moissan discovered moissanite and contributed to the development of the electric arc furnace. Moissan was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee.
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- Richard Dedekind· 1831 CE–1916 CE
- Wilhelm Wundt· 1832 CE–1920 CE
- Ernst Haeckel· 1834 CE–1919 CE
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- Adolf von Baeyer· 1835 CE–1917 CE
- Johannes van der Waals· 1837 CE–1923 CE
- Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt)· 1842 CE–1919 CE
- William James· 1842 CE–1910 CE
- Robert Koch· 1843 CE–1910 CE
- Camillo Golgi· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Ludwig Boltzmann· 1844 CE–1906 CE
- Ilya Metchnikoff· 1845 CE–1916 CE
- Georg Cantor· 1845 CE–1918 CE
- Gabriel Lippmann· 1845 CE–1921 CE
- Wilhelm Rontgen· 1845 CE–1923 CE
- Alexander Graham Bell· 1847 CE–1922 CE
- Henri Becquerel· 1852 CE–1908 CE
- Jacobus van 't Hoff· 1852 CE–1911 CE
- William Ramsay· 1852 CE–1916 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Henri Poincaré· 1854 CE–1912 CE
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- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
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- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
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- Edward VII· 1841 CE–1910 CE
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- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- José Martí· 1853 CE–1895 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Franz Joseph I· 1830 CE–1916 CE
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