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Leon Marchlewski
1869Dec, 15

Leon Marchlewski

Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1946)
Leon Paweł Teodor Marchlewski (15 December 1869 in Włocławek – 16 January 1946 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish chemist and an Honorary Member of the Polish Chemical Society.He was one of the founders in the field of chlorophyll chemistry. The illustration on the right is of his diplomatic passport he used in 1927 to attend an international conference on chemistry in Paris.

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