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Benjamin Silliman

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Gender Male
Death159 years ago
Date of birth August 8,1779
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Trumbull
Connecticut
United States
Date of died November 24,1864
DiedNew Haven
Connecticut
United States
Children Benjamin Silliman Jr.
Parents Gold Selleck Silliman
Mary Silliman
Current partner Harriet Trumbull
Awards National Academy of Sciences
Grandchildren Alice Trumbull Silliman
Education Yale University
BooksA journal of travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of two passages over the Atlantic, in the years 1805 and 1806
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Benjamin Silliman was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to use the process of fractional distillation ...

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