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George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
Inventor, Botanist, Chemist / 1864 - 1943
George Washington Carver was an agricultural chemist whose development of products derived from peanuts revolutionized the South's agricultural economy.
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Alfred Nobel
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Alfred Nobel
Business Leader, Engineer, Inventor, Chemist / 1833 - 1896
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and other explosives. He used his enormous fortune from 355 patents to institute the Nobel Prizes.
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Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur
Chemist / 1822 - 1895
French chemist Louis Pasteur is best known for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. -
John Dalton
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John Dalton
Educator, Scholar, Chemist, Meteorologist, Journalist / 1766 - 1844
Chemist John Dalton is credited with pioneering modern atomic theory. He was also the first to study color blindness.
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Percy Julian
Percy Julian
Academic, Civil Rights Activist, Medical Professional, Chemist / 1899 - 1975
African American Percy Julian is best known as a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs such as cortisone, steroids and birth control pills.
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Dmitri Mendeleyev
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Dmitri Mendeleyev
Academic, Chemist / 1834 - 1907
Dmitri Mendeleyev was a Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements.
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