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    Leo Hendrik Baekeland HonFRSE (November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. Educated in Belgium and Germany, he spent most of his career...
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    cholesteryl benzoate had two different melting points. In 1909, Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented bakelite made from phenol and formaldehyde. In 1928, synthetic...
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    chemist in America under the age of 35. In 1983, he received the Leo Hendrik Baekeland award for the most distinguished North American chemist under the...
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    ISBN 978-0-8369-0149-8. "Leo Hendrik Baekeland". Science History Institute. June 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2018. Bowden, Mary Ellen (1997). "Leo Hendrik Baekeland". Chemical...
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    Brownian motion in a way that definitively proves atomic theory. 1907 Leo Hendrik Baekeland invents bakelite, one of the first commercially successful plastics...
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    Medal, from the Franklin Institute and City of Philadelphia, 1945 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, from the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society...
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    (2011), MRS Fellow (2009 ), NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2006), ACS Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award (2005), Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (2002), David and...
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  • Gaston Briart Alphonse François Renard – geologist and petrographer Leo Hendrik Baekeland – inventor of bakelite Alfred Belpaire – steam locomotive engineer...
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    Lectureship Award 2021 - Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award 2019 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award 2019 - Guggenheim Fellowship 2019 - Eli Lilly Award in Biological...
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  • Fürstenberg (1946–), Belgian fashion designer based in New York Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgium-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic...
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