Jöns Jacob Berzelius
1779-1848
Swedish Chemist
The most renowned chemist of the first third of the nineteenth century, Jöns Jacob Berzelius excelled as a theorist, experimenter, teacher, des...
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The Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) was one of the first European scientists to accept John Dalton's atomic theory and to recognize the need for a new system of chemical symbols....
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The Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) was one of the first European scientists to accept John Dalton's atomic theory and to recognize the need for a new system of chemical symbols....
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Berzelius was born in Väversunda, Sweden, on August 20, 1779. His father died when he was four years old, and his mother when he was eight. He was educated at the local school in Linköping a...
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