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Prof Alexander William Williamson FRS FRSE PCS MRIA was an English chemist of Scottish descent. He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. May 1824 – 6. May 1904
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“The question whether our elementary atoms are in their nature indivisible, or whether they are built up of smaller particles, is one upon which I, as a chemist, have no hold whatever, and I may say that in chemistry the question is not raised by any evidence whatever.”

Alexander William Williamson

"On the Atomic Theory," J. Chem. Soc., 2nd Ser., 1869, 7:328-365, on p. 365.

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