biography
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Horsford, Eben Norton
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1818–93)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Livonia (formerly Moscow), New York, USA. He was professor at Harvard (1847–63) and developed one of the first laboratories in America for analytic chemistry. He invented baking powder and founded the Rumford Chemical Co (1856) to produce it. He also made rations composed of grain and meat for the military during the Civil War. |
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