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...When you read the names of the following persons, what fact is immediately associated with them in your mind? Answer in one or two words in each case. Mendeleff, Davy, Perkin, Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay-Lussac, Dalton, Solvay, Ramsay, Lavoisier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Mendeleff, periodic system of the elements; Davy, miner's lamp; Perkin, mauve synthetic coal tar dyes; Faraday, electro magnetic induction; Curie, Radium; Priestley, oxygen; Gay-Lussac, law of combining volumes of gases; Dalton, atomic theory; Solvay, soda from ammonia; Ramsay, the Noble gases; Lavoisier, originator of modern chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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