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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Jeannie Howse, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University).
Release date
2008-03-28
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Public domain in the USA.
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1819–1874
A Scottish chemist and physician, he helped open up the chemistry of coal tar, alkaloids, and related compounds in the mid-19th century. His research identified substances such as pyridine and picoline, and his long professorship at Glasgow made him an important figure in British chemistry.
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