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Gustaf Komppa

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Gender Male
Death74 years ago
Date of birth July 28,1867
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Vyborg
Russia
Date of died January 20,1949
DiedHelsinki
Finland
Job Chemist
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Gustaf Komppa Life story


Gustaf Komppa was a Finnish chemist best known for a world-first in commercializing total synthesis, that of camphor in 1903. Komppa was born in Viipuri in 1867. While in the secondary school in Viborg, Hugo Zilliacus, the teacher of arithmetic and science, cemented Komppa's interest in scientific research.

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