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Carl Schmidt (chemist)
1822Jun, 13

Carl Schmidt (chemist)

Carl Schmidt, Latvian-German chemist and academic (d. 1894)
Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (13 June [O.S. 1] 1822 – 11 March [O.S. 27] 1894), also known in Russia as Karl Genrikhovich Schmidt (Russian: Карл Ге́нрихович Шмидт, romanized: Karl Génrichovič Šmidt), was a Baltic German chemist from the Governorate of Livonia, a part of the Russian Empire.

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