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William Henry Perkin

English organic chemist (1860-1929).

Born June 17th, 1860 in Sudbury.

Died September 17th, 1929 at 69 years old in Oxford.

Occupations
chemist, university teacher

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. Victor Hugo