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French chemist Henri Moissan successfully isolated elemental fluorine (pictured in liquid state), for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Henri Moissan
French chemist and pharmacist (1852–1907)
Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his other contributions, Moissan discovered moissanite and contributed to the development of the electric…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fluorine
Chemical element with atomic number 9 (F)
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry
One of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)