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FEW, if any, among the men of science of the present day have at once done such important work and earned so little popular recognition as Jean Servais Stas. The names of Faraday, Liebig, Dumas, Darwin, have become household words beyond the laboratory and the lecture theatre, and are frequently taken in vain by the purveyors of “science for the million.” But, whether among the “classes” or the “masses,” if we mention Stas we are apt to be asked, Who was he? What has he done? If we mention his determination of the atomic weights, we have to follow this statement up with a popular lecture on stöchiometry, and are then told that there is not much in it.
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Jean Servais Stas. Nature 46, 81–83 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046081a0
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