Jacques Charles (Wikipedia) Jacques Alexandre César Charles (November 12, 1746 – April 7, 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist
| James Clerk Maxwell Maxwell did revolutionary work on electricity and magnetism and on the kinetic theory of gases
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures
| John Dalton (1766–1844) , Chimical Achievers John Dalton (1766–1844) was born into a modest Quaker family in Cumberland, England, and earned his living for most of his life as a teacher and public lecturer. The first paper he delivered before the society was on color blindness
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Josiah Willard Gibbs (Wikipedia) was an American theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician. One of the greatest American scientists of all time, he devised much of the theoretical foundation for chemical thermodynamics as well as physical chemistry.
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