Antoine Lavoisier
1743 – 1794 · France · Chemistry
Named oxygen, killed phlogiston, founded modern chemistry; guillotined at 50.
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- Jan Baptist van Helmont
1580 – 1644 · Chemistry, Biology
Van Helmont's gas experiments set the mass questions Lavoisier answered with the balance.
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- Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 – 1907 · Chemistry
Conservation of mass and a rational nomenclature are the ground the periodic table stands on.
- Fritz Haber
1868 – 1934 · Chemistry
Quantitative gas chemistry is the method behind ammonia synthesis.
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1580 – 1644Coined 'gas' and ran the first quantitative plant-growth experiment.
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1623 – 1662Probability theory, hydrostatics, and a mechanical calculator at nineteen.