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FREDERICK ABEL

Sir Frederick Augustus Abel was an English chemist and inventor. He was born in 1827 at London and died in 1902. Having adopted chemistry as a profession, he studied under Hofmann at the Royal College of Chemistry, became professor of Chemistry at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1851 and later chemist to the war Department from 1854 until 1888. He developed explosives and smokeless gun powder, in 1899 with James Dewar he invented cordite.
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