Jöns Jacob Berzelius: Quick Facts


Facts

Born August 20, 1779 • near Linköping • Sweden
Died August 7, 1848 (aged 68) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1836)
Subjects Of Study atomic weight • catalysis • cerium • chemical analysis • chemical symbol • isomerism • selenium • silicon • thorium • titanium • zirconium

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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
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Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Adams, Roger
Roger Adams
American chemist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
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Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
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William Prout
British chemist
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Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist
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Charles Hatchett
British chemist