Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most remarkable thing about the German chemist is the remarkable persistency with which he clings to a particular branch of work. The result is that we get an immense amount of material in the way of facts from the Germans, but the theories to which these facts are the stepping stones are largely due to the French, English and Italians, who do less special work, but more in the way of generalization...
...library has recently received a large framed photograph of Michael Eugene Chevreul, the famous French physicist and chemist, who received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard at the 250th anniversary of the college. He died April 9, 1889, at the age of 102, being the oldest man who ever received an honorary degree from Harvard...