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Eilhard Mitscherlich
Born: January 7, 1794
Sciencea German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of crystallographic isomorphism in 1819.more…Lars Fredrik Nilson
Born: May 27, 1840
Sciencea Swedish chemist made substantial contributions to Swedish agriculture, including methods of fertilization and the introduction of sugar beets as a cropmore…Jean Baptiste Perrin

Born: September 30, 1870
Sciencea French physicist who verified Albert Einstein's explanation of phenomena and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter.more…Jean Froissart
Born: January 1, 1337
Lit.Westa French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several worksmore…Louis Jacques Thénard
Born: May 4, 1777
Sciencea French chemist.more…Robert Musil
Born: November 6, 1880
Lit.Westan Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novelsmore…
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