Editing Hilaire Rouelle

{{Short description|French chemist (1718–1779)}}
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 | birth_date       = 15 February 1718
 | birth_place      = [[Mathieu, Calvados|Mathieu]], [[Kingdom of France]]
 | death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1779|04|07|1718|02|15}}
 | death_place      = [[Paris]], [[Kingdom of France]]
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'''Hilaire Marin Rouelle''' ({{IPA|fr|ilɛʁ maʁɛ̃ ʁwɛl}}; 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.<ref>{{Cite journal
|last1=Kurzer
|first1=Frederick
|last2=Sanderson
|first2=Phyllis M.
|year=1956
|title=Urea in the History of Organic Chemistry
|journal=Journal of Chemical Education
|volume=33
|issue=9
|pages=452–459
|doi=10.1021/ed033p452
}}</ref> Rouelle is known as "le cadet" (the younger) to distinguish him from his older brother, [[Guillaume-François Rouelle]], who was also a chemist.

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