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Lothar Meyer
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Lothar Meyer

Scientist · born August 19, 1830 · died 1895

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Julius Lothar Meyer was a German chemist. He was one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements. The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and he both had worked with Robert Bunsen.

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  1. ~52Received the Davy Medal1882
  2. ~64Became rector1894

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1924–2011 · Canada

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