Friedrich Wöhler
31 July 1800 – 23 September 1882
Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville
11 March 1818 – 1 July 1881
Deville and partners established the world's first industrial production
of aluminium at a smelter in Rouen in 1856. Deville's smelter moved
that year to La Glacière and then Nanterre, and in 1857 to Salindres.
Paul Héroult
10 April 1863 – 9 May 1914
Charles Martin Hall
December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914