Hilaire Rouelle
French chemist
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| Intro | French chemist | |
| A.K.A. | Hilaire Marin Rouelle | |
| A.K.A. | Hilaire Marin Rouelle | |
| Places | France | |
| was | Chemist Pharmacist | |
| Work field | Healthcare Science | |
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| Birth | 15 February 1718, Mathieu, canton of Douvres-la-Délivrande, arrondissement of Caen, Calvados | |
| Death | 7 April 1779Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 61 years) |
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Hilaire Marin Rouelle (15 February 1718 – 7 April 1779) was an 18th-century French chemist. Commonly cited as the 1773 discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so. Dutch scientist Herman Boerhaave had discovered this chemical as early as 1727. Rouelle is known as "le cadet" (the younger) to distinguish him from his older brother, Guillaume-François Rouelle, who was also a chemist.